{"id":24936,"date":"2019-11-25T07:29:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T12:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=24936"},"modified":"2019-11-25T07:31:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T12:31:54","slug":"take-that-younger-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2019\/11\/take-that-younger-al\/","title":{"rendered":"Take <em>that<\/em>, younger Al!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking that the crescent moon was going to be bigger than it actually was this morning, so I checked with Stellarium and my sunrise\/moonrise app to see when it would appear, knowing that it would be early morning close to sunrise and the sky should be perfectly clear. &#8220;Perfectly&#8221; is naturally imperfect, by nature &#8211; while we may not see distinct and visible clouds, there remains atmospheric humidity and distortion, the more so the lower we see something in the sky because we&#8217;re looking at a flatter angle through the sphere of air that surrounds the planet, so a greater thickness of it. And yet, with the help of my compass app (just burning the hell out of the ol&#8217; smutphone,) I located it, and snagged a few pics.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/VeryOldMoon.jpg\" alt=\"very thin crescent moon, 28 hours from new\" width=\"750\" height=\"866\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24937\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Not a lot to see, and might perhaps have been sharper, but there was no way autofocus would have even found this in the frame, so I was focusing manually on a little sliver. Then again, atmospheric haze so low on the horizon (this was only up 10&#176;) might have prevented anything sharper anyway. The smudges to the right, by the way, are the branches of a tree in the foreground.<\/p>\n<p>So I checked after editing the photo, and found that I captured this just 28 hours ahead of new moon, when the sun would be completely behind it and thus not illuminating the side we can see at all. I was curious, remembering that I&#8217;d attempted this once before, and went looking<strong>:<\/strong> actually, the previous attempt was <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/Space\/Gibbous.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">70 hours ahead of new<\/a>, so I handily trashed that personal record. Go older me!<\/p>\n<p>For giggles, I may try again in a couple of hours, when the sun is fully up (it had not quite risen when I got this one,) and see what I can see. I&#8217;m not holding my breath, because glare is going to be a serious issue, but it might be interesting. If something turns up, you&#8217;ll be seeing it here of course.<\/p>\n<p>No, I wasn&#8217;t talking about you, Buggato ;-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking that the crescent moon was going to be bigger than it actually was this morning, so I checked with Stellarium and my sunrise\/moonrise app to see when it would appear, knowing that it would be early morning close to sunrise and the sky should be perfectly clear. &#8220;Perfectly&#8221; is naturally imperfect, by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3],"tags":[5263,4414,241,5262],"class_list":["post-24936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-photo","tag-anorexic","tag-crescent-moon","tag-moon-photography","tag-new-record"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}