[Avodah] Yom Tov Sheni for Olim LeReget to the BeitMikdash

[Michael Poppers]

In Avodah Digest V26#230, RnTK wrote:
> However, see this picture that I found of the new moon apparently visible
at dawn -- or perhaps this is just /before/ dawn and once the sun rises,
the
new  moon will no longer be visible?


_http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2009/05/sky-watch-new-moon-and-morning-sta
r-2.html_
(http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2009/05/sky-watch-new-moon-and-morning-star-2.html)
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That's a pic of an _old_ (waning, or 3rd-quarter) moon...and the 'blogger
corrected himself the day after RnTK's post.  It was taken in the Northern
Hemisphere, where one sees the left side of the moon when it's waning.

All the best from
--Michael Poppers via RIM pager
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