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Credit & Copyright: Tunc Tezel
Explanation:
July is drawing to a close and in the past few days,
some early morning risers could have
looked east and seen a crescent Moon
sharing the pre-dawn skies with planets Jupiter and Saturn.
Planet Mercury will also pass
about 2 degrees from
the thin waning crescent
Moon
just before sunrise near the eastern horizon
on Saturday, July 29.
And finally, on the evening of July 31st, Venus will take its turn
near the crescent Moon.
But this time it will be a day-old crescent Moon near the western horizon,
shortly after sunset.
In
fact, on July 31 (August 1 Universal Time)
the Moon will occult
(pass in front of) Venus for
northwestern observers in North America.
This telescopic picture taken on 31 December 1997, shows a lovely young
crescent Moon and brilliant crescent
Venus in the early evening sky near
Bursa,
Turkey.
And what about the Sun? On Sunday, July 30, a partial eclipse of the Sun will be visible from some locations in North America.
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