[TrevorRoberts]

Hi, I'm a newbie who has been unable to find another place to report a strange phenomenon that I witnessed last night in northern NSW in the late afternoon as the crescent moon became more visible. My wife also saw it. I called my daughter in Sydney and she also could see it, describing exactly what we were seeing. I am 61 and have been a moon and star watcher all my life (in a limited, amateur sense) but I have never seen this in the moon before. What we saw was obviously an illusion, but the points of the horns of the crescent moon appeared to be split. The "splits" went for about 10% of the arc of the crescent, and the rest of the moon appeared normal. I raced home (it took an hour) and was just able to catch the moon before it set. Visually, the moon had not changed. Through my 80x binoculars, there was not sign of the splitting, but there was a lot of atmospheric shimmering at the boundary of the moon. Can anyone help by either explaining the phenomenon or by pointing me to where I can report this and get some information. What this has shown me is that if I had seen something really interesting, I'd have no way of knowing how/where to report it.

Thanks

Trevor Roberts