Thin crescent

[StarSapling]

Yesterday evening after observing Venus, I dropped down for a quick look at the thin crescent moon near the horizon.  I was not expecting to be able to use any real magnification, but I was pleasantly surprised and was able to see some good detail at 91x through my 90mm f10 refractor. The view I had of Mare Humboldtianum was particularly pleasing.

[knobby]

Nice

[AustinR]

I hope to be able to view it tonight, it should be around 7-8% I believe.

[trynda1701]

I tried to find it last night in the 10x50's, but although I found Mercury just above the rooftops to the west, the Moon eluded me. Hopefully tonight then!

[Dave In Vermont]

Here's a nice piece of freeware to give you information on what the Moon is up to:

http://www.tingan.com/index.asp?top=top&left=meny&right=space&main=w3

The site has many other cool freeware-programs, too.

Enjoy,

Dave

[acr_astro]

Hi all,

yesterday evening I had a quick look at the moon (around 6%) and I agree that Mare Humboldtianum provided nice views and one could nicely see its rim at 60x.

(Note that I observed just with the tiny Skywatcher 76/300 Heritage.)

Achim