Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                              2023 November 16
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                       Daytime Moon Meets Morning Star
            Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Katarzyna Kaczmarczyk

   Explanation: [5]Venus now appears as Earth's brilliant morning star,
   shining above the southeastern horizon before dawn. For early morning
   risers, the silvery celestial beacon rose predawn in a close pairing
   with a waning crescent Moon on Thursday, November 9. But from some
   [6]northern locations, the Moon was seen to occult or pass in front of
   Venus. From much of Europe, the lunar occultation could be [7]viewed in
   daylight skies. This time series composite follows the daytime approach
   of Moon and morning star in blue skies from Warsaw, Poland. The
   progression of eight [8]sharp telescopic snapshots, made between
   10:56am and 10:58am local time, runs from left to right, when Venus
   winked out behind the [9]bright lunar limb.

                  Tomorrow's picture: Aurora over Greenland
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    Authors & editors: [21]Robert Nemiroff ([22]MTU) & [23]Jerry Bonnell
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                           & [31]Michigan Tech. U.

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   7. https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/898759-daytime-occultation-of-venus-november-9-2023/
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