He Bays that his thermometrical instruments were sensibly affected by the moon's rays ... lie sweltering and unoovered beneath the full glare of a tropical sun, carefully muffle their heads ...

A New Moon is invisible. It occurs when the Moon is roughly between the Earth and the Sun, so it’s lost in our star’s glare from our point of view. With the Moon out of the night sky ...

A new moon occurs when our natural satellite is roughly between Earth and the sun, so lost in its glare, only to emerge ... eclipse at 03:12 a.m. EDT. The effect of a penumbral lunar eclipse ...