[AZ-Observing] Young Moon Naked-Eye Record

The following information was posted to Amastro (a visual observers' mailing 
list) by California amateur Dana Patchick.  His records have the naked-eye 
young moon sighting record at 14 hours and 51 minutes.

That makes the time to beat 7:27 p.m. MST.  If you saw the moon earlier than 
that yesterday, you may own a new record, achieved without the benefit of 
steroids.

Brian?

Tom

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"Hi Brian,

...According to an article at Skytonight.com "Seeking Thin Crescent Moons" by 
Robert Victor, 
 
"The record for the youngest Moon ever seen with optical aid, 11h 40m past new, 
goes to Mohsen G. Mirsaeed of Tehran who saw it on September 7, 2002. The 
youngest crescent ever seen by the naked eye, 15h 32m, is still that observed 
in May 1990 by Sky & Telescope  contributing editor Stephen James O'Meara. "
 
In my scrapbook of young moon articles, I have an "Observer's Page" from a 
September, 1989 Sky and Telescope magazine that speaks of a report sent to 
Bradley Schaefer, who studies the young-Moon sightings. Schaefer spoke with a 
Steven Shore of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, who along 
with four students observed the 14h 51m old crescent moon on the evening of May 
5, 1989 with their naked eyes from atop 11,000 foot Mount baldy near Socorro, 
New Mexico. The Observer's Page article states this is the youngest naked-eye 
sighting ever clearly documented.
 
Your sighting of 14h 49m would apparently challenge both of those records!"

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