The other one that jumped out at me was this one, which is apparently one of the most-quoted ones from FE’s:
“On the 15th of March, 1848, when the moon was seven and a half days old, I never saw her unillumined disc so beautifully. . . . On my first looking into the telescope a star of about the 7th magnitude was some minutes of a degree distant from the moon’s dark limb. I saw that its occultation by the moon was inevitable. . . . The star, instead of disappearing the moment the moon’s edge came in contact with it ... Read even more
