Re: the moon

<jezemondo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1179783152.459127.222930@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Can anyone help with what sounds like a bizarre question. A few days
ago, at around 10.30pm my wife and I saw what looked like the bottom
crescent of the moon well to the right of Venus, where it shouldn't
be. The next night it was there again.
Tonight the moon is where it should be well to the left of Venus.
What is it I have been seeing.
Thanks


I don't understand why you expected that the Moon could only appear to the "left" of Venus. Both the Moon and Venus should be found pretty close to the ecliptic and the Sun was well below, and to the right of, both objects, as seen from higher latitudes in the northern hemisphere.

Venus is near maximum eastern elongation [along the ecliptic] so a young crescent Moon can easily appear below and/or to the right of Venus at this time of year, i.e., appearing closer to the Sun in the sky.

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Mike Dworetsky

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