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Crescent Moon Meets Evening Star

Crescent Moon Meets Evening Star: APOD: 2013 September 13 - Crescent Moon Meets Evening Star


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2013 September 13


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Crescent Moon Meets Evening Star

Image Credit & Copyright: Luis Argerich, Agustin Llorens, Guido Medici, Gabriel Remotti
Explanation: On September 8, brilliant planet Venus appearing as the evening star stood near a slender, crescent Moon at sunset. The close celestial pairing or conjunction was a scene enjoyed by skygazers around the world. But from some locations in South America, the Moon actually passed in front of Venus in a lunar occultation. Captured near Las CaƱas, Uruguay, this two frame mosaic telescopic view shows the Moon and Venus before and after the occultation. The silvery evening star appears at right just before it winked out behind the dark lunar limb, still in bright twilight skies. About an hour later Venus emerged (left) along the three day old Moon's sunlit edge.

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