Lunar Occultation of Venus

On Would possibly perhaps perhaps perhaps also 27 Venus rose because the morning considerable individual, reach the waning crescent Moon in a predawn sky already stout of planets. It became end on the sky to the Moon’s crescent and a conjunction of the 2d an third brightest celestial beacons were loved by skygazers around the realm. However viewed from locations alongside a music through southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean the Moon genuinely handed in entrance of Venus in a lunar occultation. On this sharp gif the 75 percent illuminated disk of Venus approaches and ethical begins to vanish at the help of the sunlit southwestern lunar limb. The telescopic frames frail to kind it were captured from Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean around 4: 50am native time, with the Moon and Venus very end to the jap horizon. On the time Venus became over 180 million kilometers from Reunion Island, in contrast to a lunar distance of a mere 400 thousand kilometers or so. About 50 minutes later Venus emerged from at the help of the Moon.