Gibbous vs Crescent

rly risers around planet Earth occupy enjoyed a figuring out crescent Moon attain devoted Venus, in terms of the jap horizon in most modern morning twilight skies. And the day gone by, on September 19, skygazers watching from some locations in Earth’s northern hemisphere had been furthermore in a space to seem for Venus, within the inner planet’s waxing gibbous piece, shuffle within the support of the Moon’s waning crescent. Of direction, this telescopic snapshot became taken moments earlier than that occultation of gibbous Venus by the crescent Moon started. The close-up notion of the ravishing celestial alignment data Venus drawing attain piece of the Moon’s sunlit edge in clear daytime skies from the Swiss Alps. Tomorrow, the Sun will shuffle within the support of a Fresh Moon. Nonetheless to seem for that partial photo voltaic eclipse on September 21, skygazers will need to peep from locations in planet Earth’s southern hemisphere.