“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.” – E. Joseph Cossman
According to this criterion, my memory wouldn’t have rated good if today were yesterday or tomorrow. But today is today, and one year ago, I was worrying about observing and photographing the partial solar eclipse of 22nd July 2009.
A New Moon does not always bring a solar eclipse, but it does bring photography opportunities nevertheless. You read it right. Photographing a “new” Moon, although very challenging, is doable, and a record was set on 14th April 2010: the extremely thin crescent was shot at the very moment of geocentric conjunction with the angular separation between the Moon and the Sun being just 4.55° (nine solar diameters).
“[The crescent was] drowned in the solar glare, the blue sky being about 400 times brighter than the crescent itself in infrared (and probably more than 1000 times in visible light).”
Link.
Interestingly, the equipment used was very similar to the gear our Saad Abbasi has . . . although I’m not sure if Saad will want to shoot that close to the Sun!
Zain