We ’ll give you a clue : It was taken in full day with the usage of a telescope on July 8th , 2013 at exactly 7:14 UTC .
The super thin electric discharge that you see here is the tiny lunar crescent at the precise moment of the New Moon . In other words , it ’s the youngest possible crescent . The age of the Moon ’s oscillation at this heartbeat is exactly zero .
The gawk and bumps in the crescent , along with the opening , are representative of the Moon ’s topology as seen from this slant ( i.e. great deal and craters ) — which should give you an indication of just how unusually thin this arc really is .
The record setting range was taken by Thierry Legault from a shot site in Elancourt , France .
“ At this very small separation , the crescent is extremely flimsy ( a few discharge seconds at uttermost ) and , above all , it is drowned in the solar spotlight , the blue sky being about 400 times lustrous than the crescent itself in infrared ( and believably more than 1000 time in seeable light ) , ” he writes on hiswebsite . “ to dilute the glower , the images have been have in close infrared and a pierced blind , placed just in front of the telescope , preclude the sunlight from entering flat in the scope . ”
The New Moon is defined as the jiffy when the ecliptic geocentric longitude of the Moon and the Sun are adequate . It ’s the moment when the imaginary line joining the Moon and the Sun is perpendicular to the ecliptic ( the plane of the Earth ’s orbit ) . It can also be said that it ’s the instant when their angular breakup is minimum .
All images via Thierry Legault .
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