October 30, 2006
There are stars whose light will never reach us, worlds we will never touch, mysteries we may never solve.
Crescent Venus and Moon
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APOD published October 30, 2006. Credit: Iv�n �der. A publication-date match, not a photo taken on your date. Independent of NASA.
There's something behind these clouds. Those faint graceful arcs, upon inspection, are actually far, far in the distance. They are the Earth's Moon and the planet Venus. Both the Moon and Venus are bright enough to be seen during the day, and both are quite capable of showing a crescent phase. To see Venus, which appears quite small, in a crescent phase requires binoculars or a telescope. In the above dramatic daytime image taken from Budapest, Hungary, the Moon and Venus shared a similar crescent phase a few minutes before the Moon eclipsed the larger but more distant world. About an hour later, Venus reappeared.
Image credit: Iv�n �der