![]() To this end, the 6 day old Moon was imaged in the late afternoon of November 24 th whilst at an elevation of 19 degrees. A further advantage is that the near infrared part of the spectrum is less affected by the ‘seeing’ than shorter wavelengths. This thus allows the Moon to be imaged when at a higher elevation so helping to ameliorate the effects of atmospheric turbulence. As I have described elsewhere in this digest, a way out of this problem is to image the Moon in the infrared as the blue skylight is very largely eliminated so that the contrast in the image will be far better than if imaged in white light. One problem in imaging the early phases of the Moon is that, by that time that the sky is dark, it will be fairly low above the horizon so the atmosphere will reduce the image quality that one might achieve if it were higher in the sky. This was an exercise to image the 6 day old Moon.
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