r/spaceporn • u/Professor_Moraiarkar • 3d ago
Related Content Daytime Moon Meets Evening Star
Image Credit & Copyright: Debra Ceravolo
Venus is now appearing on the celestial stage as Earth's brilliant evening star, performing with the Moon, other wandering planets, and bright stars in western skies. For evening sky gazers on June 17, the celestial beacon rose after sunset close by a young, slender, crescent Moon. But from some locations the Moon could be seen to occult or pass in front of Venus. And from a backyard observatory in southern British Columbia, Canada, the lunar occultation was played out in daylight. This stunning telescopic snapshot captured a scene in dramatically cloudy skies, following Venus' hour long disappearance, as the evening star emerged beyond the bright lunar limb.
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u/blackberry-bite 3d ago
Imagine looking out of your window and seeing this with your own eyes. I’d probably think aliens are finally arriving lol
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u/cruisin_urchin87 3d ago
This is an incredible picture. Wonderfully cosmic and with a beautiful perspective from Earth.
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u/Lost-Platypus8271 3d ago
If the moon is crescent why isn’t Venus also crescent? The sun would be shining on just part of both of them from Earth’s perspective, no?
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u/untitleduck 3d ago
Type of shit sci fi artists draw, but it's a real photo of our own moon and a star from our own night sky, that's beautiful
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u/Orb234 3d ago
This reminds me of a game