Hello Centaur,

How are you? Just saw First visibility of the new moon from the intersection of Hacienda Blvd. and Whittier Blvd. in the city of La Habra.

I really thought I had no chance of seeing it as the western horizon was pretty cluttered by all sorts of city stuff.

But there it was, the most thin crescent Moon! Beautiful! Even got a picture but I have to upload it somehow....lol.

This all happened at 8:15 PDT.

Pretty awesome!!!

Clear Skies   --- Silveradogold

Congratulations, Silveradogold.  I knew you’d be successful if you kept plugging.  I hope you post a picture.

As the Sun was setting here in northwest suburban Chicagoland the sky seemed perfectly clear.  My camera was primed and ready.  But during the hour after sunset the sky was clear except for murky summertime cloudiness low on the western horizon.  The wispy backlit clouds made for a beautiful sunset, but hid both the Moon and Venus.

Sorry for the delay.

Here is the picture I took:

http://www.cloudynights.com/photopost/data/527/9033First_Visibility_New_Moon_20080802-med.gif

I have to make a correction. I posted the time taken as 8:15pm which was wrong. After reviewing the picture's information I found that I took the picture a half hour later at 8:45pm.

Clear Skies   --- Silveradogold

Wow.  Great catch!

L

Thank you leo,

I didn't think I had a chance of recording much of anything, but since it's not film I went ahead and tried.

This is a good example that one has to 'try and take a shot at it'.

And I am somewhat confused by the time on the original photo. It says 8:45pm but I think that is wrong. I still think that I took the shot at 8:15pm which seems to fit the picture.

I will check my camera's internal clock.

Clear Skies   --- Silveradogold

Ok I found the problem. This time on the photo is the time I downloaded it to my computer a half hour after I took it.

Live and learn...lol

Clear Skies   --- Silveradogold

Wonderful picture, Silveradogold.  Congratulations!  Thanks for sharing.  I always set my camera’s clock before going out for a shoot.  The time recorded for the photo should be the time it was taken and not the time that anything else was done to it.  The trick to inserting your pictures within your post is to put (img) in front of the address and (/img) after it, but replace the ( and ) with [ and ].  Here it is: