Credit & Copyright: Quentin Gineys
Explanation:
On May 27 Venus rose as the morning star, near the
waning crescent Moon
in a predawn sky
already full of planets.
It
was close
on the sky to the Moon's crescent and a
conjunction of the second an third brightest celestial beacons
were enjoyed by skygazers around the world.
But seen from locations along a track through southeast Asia
and the Indian Ocean
the Moon actually passed in front of Venus in
a lunar occultation.
In this animated gif the 75 percent illuminated disk of
Venus approaches
and just begins to disappear behind the sunlit southwestern lunar limb.
The telescopic frames
used to construct it were captured
from Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean around 4:50am local time,
with the Moon and Venus very close to the eastern horizon.
At the time Venus
was over 180 million kilometers from Reunion Island,
compared to a lunar distance of a mere 400 thousand kilometers or so.
About 50 minutes later Venus emerged from
behind the Moon.
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