#Occultation

On Wednesday, June 17, skywatchers across the United States—and parts of Canada—enjoyed a rare event: a daytime lunar occultation of Venus. A lunar occultation occurs when the Moon moves directly in front of another celestial object from our viewpoint on…

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Watch Regulus disappear and reappear before your eyes during its last North American occultation in the current cycle.