Re: % of Illuminated moon's visible disk can be seen by naked-eye

Jim Stamm wrote:
Steven O'Meara has claimed several observations with less than 1%
illumination, one as low as 0.8%.

As far as I know, I hold the record for observation from the driver's
seat of a moving car (NOT RECOMMENDED!), at 1.3 percent, on
September 7, 2002. :-o

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