D. McNally's scientific contributions
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Publication (1)
Observation of the young Moon has from time to time suggested that the
outer terminator of the illuminated crescent is less than the
theoretical value of 180° often by a substantial margin. This
phenomena is not observed at every new Moon. It is shown that
deformations of the Moon's figure are insufficiently large to account
for the observed effect...
Citations
... In 1932, Danjon [12] claimed that the moon could not be seen if its elongation is less than 7 • , thereafter referred to in the literature as "Danjon's limit". Many moonsighting campaigns led by McNally [13] and Schaefer [14] attempted to break that limit [15]; the results were recorded in tables and used by many others, such as Yallop [16] and Odeh [17]. ...
