It's my slimmest moon photo yet at just 3% illumination! This beats out my previous slimmest moon of about 5% illumination. I took this photo at 7:48am on 1/29/2014 (now you can tell how late I am to getting around to blogging about it!).
![slim crescent moon day slim crescent moon day](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNlYSFx5F3HRUTOGo4j9KH54CEu9HtwL-F53gYbrpv1BQn5pnDATHFcF8D1mHdyTPqvlXpk71U1nxaeltxeIrTwbEWVck3GNaeZVR3FeY-lnjiJTxolVfi84NuhXLj6rYut1ZM7NKjufTo/s1600/3+percent+crescent+moon.jpg) |
f/9, 1/50sec, ISO 100, 300mm |
It was already more than 10° above the horizon by this point about 8 minutes before sunrise. It must have been quite the site earlier in a darker sky - a blazing bright thumbnail of light.
![slim crescent moon day slim crescent moon day](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVKLyisQC_fWsJu81A13BtzBB-C8h2liL0IDdE06VaTYb9A2cZgYGYqJu2FIHhJACf6tp5XJYuApAzv_r5WInmXPweC0lmQwmI1WWQy0t84RycxaBFxWqCM6lSDtaRgPP5drOx7kwOneeq/s1600/slim+crescent+moon.jpg) |
f/9, 1/60 sec, ISO 100, 110mm |
I believe my previous slimmest moon was photographed
during the PanSTARRS comet observation, and it was about 5% illuminated. Earlier that morning it would have been at about 3% but since I observed it at dusk rather than dawn it was already slightly older.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQfwyAhGWTWX83fhq72EHR4OX8M8lbd8_py8cZjjegTaiGci3Hb0hyOcBZsEPtL25S1gdtxrGPjYyDlaVg94XaBG_MpVZPlXpRNKV0Ae15aNuavIWF2dn-fv73-QYTh9R64-PJWJyPu6e6/s1600/moon.jpg) |
5% illuminated moon on March 13, 2013 |
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