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                                 2022 June 2
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                         Lunar Occultation of Venus
               Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Quentin Gineys

   Explanation: On May 27 Venus rose as the morning star, near the
   [5]waning crescent Moon in a predawn sky [6]already full of planets.
   [7]It was close on the sky to the Moon's crescent and a conjunction of
   the second an third brightest celestial beacons were enjoyed by
   skygazers around the world. But seen from locations along a track
   through southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean the Moon actually passed in
   front of Venus in [8]a lunar occultation. In this animated gif the 75
   percent illuminated disk of Venus approaches and just begins to
   disappear behind the sunlit southwestern lunar limb. [9]The telescopic
   frames used to construct it were captured from Reunion Island in the
   Indian Ocean around 4:50am local time, with the Moon and Venus very
   close to the eastern horizon. [10]At the time Venus was over 180
   million kilometers from Reunion Island, compared to a lunar distance of
   a mere 400 thousand kilometers or so. About 50 minutes later Venus
   emerged from [11]behind the Moon.

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References

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   4. https://www.astrobin.com/users/kantin/
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   7. https://earthsky.org/todays-image/dazzling-venus-goes-behind-the-moon/
   8. https://in-the-sky.org/news.php?id=20220527_16_100
   9. https://www.astrobin.com/m2sj29/
  10. https://theskylive.com/venus-info
  11. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/skywatching/home/
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  20. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html
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