Venus occultion

[At dusk]

HI

Astronomy has been my main hobby for the last forty years. I watch and image the sun regularly but I have to admit that I'd never bothered to look at planets o the moon in broad daylight. I didn't expect much of the occultation with the big bright summer sun so close in the sky. But it was amazing. The planet approaching slowly and then disappearing until only a small point of light was visible against the darkest disk of the moon.

I attach a couple of pictures as a testimony, although unfortunately they cannot reflect the beauty of the occultation

 

Regards

 

 

Edited June 20, 2020 by At dusk

[At dusk]

 

 

I forgot the pictures. Officcina stellare 80 mm + asi1600mm

Edited June 20, 2020 by At dusk

[David Smith]

Awesome. I've seen a few of this type of event over the years and there is something strangely magical about one celestial body moving in front of the other. Good pics too.

[petevasey]

Nice photos, thank you for posting - in the UK we were completely clouded out 😭

Peter

[Debo]

Brilliant !!!

[maw lod qan]

Thanks! Those are some nice images so something I wished I could have seen with my own eyes.

I watch Luna and Mars merge, it was almost too daylight to see, but when that tiny red spec disappeared it was magical!

[Pete Presland]

Lovely captures, i was looking forward to seeing this. I did a lot of planning, but in true from the weather could not have been worse!

[petevasey]

A relatively unusual event, though certainly not as rare as a Solar transit!  I've done a search using Skymap Pro and as far as I can tell the next one visible from the UK will be on Thursday November 9th 2023, starting around 0940 UT +/- 10 minutes or so depending on location. and lasting around an hour.  The Moon is again a waning crescent, Venus disappearing behind the lit portion first as before and itself almost last quarter, mag -4.3.  Well separated from the Sun, 45 degrees West, and quite high in the sky, over 35 degrees altitude (again depending on location, that is for NE England). Both Stellarium and SkyX agree :-)  Should be quite a sight, definitely one for the diary.  But November weather???  Fingers firmly crossed!

Cheers,

Peter

[Ouroboros]

That’s a wonderful picture. I wish I’d been aware of this occultation at the time. It would probably have been cloudy knowing my luck. 
 

Just a detail but is the apparent shift in the line of crescent Venuses real or something to do with how you produced the multiple image? 

[Tenor Viol]

I was certainly clouded out for it