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Keywords: Moon, occultation, regulus
![Веселое небо над Лос-Анджелесом](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/11/14/0001392460/happyla_jurasevich_960.preview.jpg)
12.11.2017
Sometimes, the sky may seem to smile over much of planet Earth. On this day in 2008, visible the world over, was an unusual superposition of our Moon and the planets Venus and Jupiter.
![Скала трех планет](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/11/14/0001912095/MoonVenusJupiter_Passalacqua_960.preview.jpg)
14.11.2023
In the fading darkness before dawn, a tilted triangle appeared to balance atop a rock formation off the southern tip of Sicily. Making up the points of the triangle are three of the four brightest objects visible in EarthБs sky: Jupiter, Venus and the Moon.
![Юпитер в лунном свете](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/11/03/0001911142/_GHR7338_3_firma_picc1024.preview.jpg)
3.11.2023
That bright beacon you've seen rising in the east just after sunset is Jupiter. Climbing high in midnight skies, our Solar System's ruling gas giant was at its 2023 opposition, opposite the Sun in planet Earth's sky, on November 2.
![Отражения Венеры и Луны](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2018/05/20/0001411159/IMG_5932_curti1024.preview.jpg)
19.05.2018
Posing near the western horizon, a brilliant evening star and slender young crescent shared reflections in a calm sea last Thursday after sunset. Recorded in this snapshot from the Atlantic beach at Santa Marinella...
!["LOVE" на Луне](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2018/11/04/0001443275/LOVE1_1080.preview.jpg)
3.11.2018
A more creative search by a group of amateur astronomers in the Ehime Prefecture of Shikoku Island, Japan has found lunar L-O-V-E. Their secret was an examination of this sharp image of the First Quarter Moon.
![Космический аппарат SLIM прилунился](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2024/01/30/0001919050/Slim_jaxa_960.preview.jpg)
30.01.2024
New landers are on the Moon. Nearly two weeks ago, Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) released two rovers as it descended, before its main lander touched down itself. The larger...
![Солнечное и лунное гало](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/04/03/0001334854/GS_20150401_SolarHalo_8814_DayNight.preview.jpg)
3.04.2015
Two pictures captured on April 1 are combined in this creative day and night composite. Separated in time by about 10 hours the images otherwise match, looking along the coast at Östersund Sweden.
![Свет от Солнца и от Земли](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/03/20/0001334014/EarthShineStack1024.preview.jpg)
19.03.2015
Today's date marks an Equinox and a New Moon. Remarkably, while the exact timing of both geocentric events occur within a span of only 13 hours, the moon also reaches its new phase only 14 hours after perigee, the closest point in its orbit.
![Луна и Меркурий над Лас Кампанас](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2016/08/15/0001367463/Moon_Mercury_beletsky.preview.jpg)
6.08.2016
Last Thursday the view toward sunset from the 2.5 kilometer summit of Cerro Las Campanas in the remote Chilean Andes was amazing. Bright but fading Mercury stood very close to a two day old Moon. Both a sunlit lunar crescent and earthlit lunar nightside are captured with the fleeting innermost planet in this breathtaking mountainscape.
![С добрым утром, Луна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2024/01/12/0001917201/HimmlichesDreieckSaarburg_TWAN_mercurybildweb1024.preview.jpg)
12.01.2024
Yesterday, the Moon was New. But on January 9, early morning risers around planet Earth were treated to the sight of an old Moon, low in the east as the sky grew bright before dawn.
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