If you don’t live in the western US, and if you weren’t up early enough, here’s a shot about 50 minutes before the Moon’s occultation of Venus. I snapped the photo from my back deck. I noticed it just before I started my jog when they were both right on the cusp of the mountains—I should have turned around then and snapped a few, but I didn’t. Mars was about three more inches (compared to the picture) to the upper right corner.
All-in-all, it was a beautiful sight!
Here’s a little info from Sky and Telescope.
Anybody else catch it?
wow! great shot
Stellar picture…. I love it. Wish I had gotten up to look had I been paying attention to the astronomy forecasts. I slept through the Lyrids too.
I just lucked on it because the morning before I saw that the moon was half way between Mars and Venus. So I kept my eye out for it the next morning. I haven’t been keeping up on astronomy stuff as I used to in the past. So many things, so little time…
Incredible post…can’t believe it…really out of this world…I wonder
what we will read next…not doubt the jogging comment is an all-time
classic. Hey, nice picture too.
Listen up smarty-pants, what’s the most recent thing on your blog? Yeah, that’s what I thought! You’ll be thankful I’m doing a bit of jogging now so you don’t have to haul me 20 miles out of some god-forsaken, backwoods, desert-bound creek this summer. (I know, I know, you wouldn’t haul me out. Some f
riend you are!.)wow…. wish i could have been there for this….. thanks
Rod,
I’m glad to hear from you!
Unfortunately it was a little too late in the morning for you in the east–it would have been too bright to see Venus.
I was hoping for the “after” picture as well, with Venus coming out of the other side of the moon, but by then it was too bight here too.
Thanks for being one of two people checking my blog.
True Friend! I’ll haul you out…ol’ bucket of chain.