Rich McAllister

09:23 am: Occultation of Venus
I got up at 4:30 this morning to see the moon slide in front of Venus.  I hadn't realized just how low in the sky the moon would be; I ended up walking downtown and getting up on top of a 5-story parking ramp in order to see the start.  By 6:00 when Venus reappeared, they were up high enough to see from the front yard.  The reappearance was more striking, since Venus reappeared off the dark side of the moon; during the disappearance it was hard to judge the exact instant of Venus being obscured instead of just lost in the glare from the moon.