A daytime occultation of the planet Venus occurred at approximately 3:47 PM, when the bright planet was gradually covered by the dark edge of the thin crescent moon. Disappearance took a mere 30 seconds for the sunlit portion of the gibbous planet. Conditions were not great as there were a significant number of cumulous clouds making finding and focusing on the pair difficult. I used my wide field WO ZS61 telescope and ASI533mc camera to capture the full diameter of the moon. Image scale of the scope and seeing conditions of the sky made any attempt at capturing detail on the planet impossible.
At 5:10 PM Venus reappeared, but behind a large cloud. Minutes later I was able to capture some video of the planet very close to the bright lunar limb.
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