Earth Day occultation of Venus
A Distant Mirror
March 31, 2009JPL Open House
May 4, 2009
I got up early today (April 22) to see the occultation of Venus by the Moon. The disappearance happened before the Moon had cleared a hill on the Northeast horizon at my house, but the reappearance past the dark limb of the Moon was very nice. I grabbed this image with a handheld Canon SD600 pocket digital camera.
Moon and Venus
Other observers used much better setups and got better resolution. A good picture is found at the Universe Today.
nwright
Ned Wright, 65 years old, is a professor at UCLA. He did far-infrared observations using a 102-cm balloon-borne telescope for his PhD thesis, and has since observed with the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, and the space-based COBE, WMAP, Spitzer and WISE missions.
