Yesterday morning I hauled myself out of bed at 0330 hoping to get some photos of the occultation of Venus, and the Lyrid meteor shower. No luck on the meteors, but I shot almost 200 photos of Venus passing behing the moon. I was a mess all day for lack of sleep, but it was worth it. Here's a sample...
If you look close, you can see that Venus is also a crescent.
There she goes...
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