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                                    2022 June 2   
      
                            Lunar Occultation of Venus   
                     Image Credit & Copyright: Quentin Gineys   
      
      Explanation: On May 27 Venus rose as the morning star, near the waning   
      crescent Moon in a predawn sky already full of planets. 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 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. 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.   
      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 behind the Moon.   
      
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