Record breaker: newest new Moon spotted!

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Apr 21, 2010 4:30 PMNov 20, 2019 5:27 AM

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Thierry Legault is a French amateur astronomer... and if ever the word "amateur" were misleading, it's here. Thierry is an incredibly accomplished astronomer; his pictures have graced my blog many times in the past. Like when he caught the Shuttle and Hubble silhouetted against the Sun, or this lighthearted picture of someone painting the Sun, or the Shuttle and the space station transiting the Sun. Come to think of it, he seems to have a fetish with the Sun. But that's good, because he's done it again: he's captured a record-breaking picture of the newest new Moon!

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