{"id":214655,"url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/214655-a-daytime-eclipse-moon-occults-venus","short_url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/214655","headline":"A Daytime Eclipse: Moon Occults Venus","content":"\u003cp\u003eNASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere was something behind the clouds.  Upon close inspection, it was the Moon, which was hard to see yesterday around noon above the small village of Cessy, France.  But soon, it was not only the Moon. As expected, a bright dot suddenly appeared from behind the Moon -- the planet Venus far in the distance.  Captured in the single featured exposure, both appeared to show a crescent phase.  The Moon's crescent was quite slight -- with only about 10 percent of its face illuminated by the Sun. In contrast, Venus's crescent was more full -- showing about 25 percent illumination. Venus appeared brighter because it is nearer the Sun and because its clouds are more reflective than the dark lunar surface. An occultation of Venus by the Moon is visible to only about 10 percent of the Earth, but in yesterday's event even most of that was experiencing daytime.   APOD's main NASA site is moving: From apod.nasa.gov to science.nasa.gov/apod\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003ePhoto by Arnaud Mariat\u003c/p\u003e","content_plain":"NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:\n\nThere was something behind the clouds.  Upon close inspection, it was the Moon, which was hard to see yesterday around noon above the small village of Cessy, France.  But soon, it was not only the Moon. As expected, a bright dot suddenly appeared from behind the Moon -- the planet Venus far in the distance.  Captured in the single featured exposure, both appeared to show a crescent phase.  The Moon's crescent was quite slight -- with only about 10 percent of its face illuminated by the Sun. In contrast, Venus's crescent was more full -- showing about 25 percent illumination. Venus appeared brighter because it is nearer the Sun and because its clouds are more reflective than the dark lunar surface. An occultation of Venus by the Moon is visible to only about 10 percent of the Earth, but in yesterday's event even most of that was experiencing daytime.   APOD's main NASA site is moving: From apod.nasa.gov to science.nasa.gov/apod\n\n\nPhoto by Arnaud Mariat","published_at":"2026-09-15T14:16:10-07:00","updated_at":"2026-09-15T14:44:38-07:00","author":{"type":"Person","name":"Specola-","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/298285-specola"},"description":"Stay up-to-date with Specola on Kudos365. View their photo published Sep/15/2026 on Science - Tech - Astronomy. Browse your favorite topics and share your expertise, too.","type":"photo","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/site/apod/generated/e673e03b-9f97-40f3-a11c-9fa5c3d0af79.jpg?auto=compress,format\u0026fit=max\u0026w=1200\u0026h=1200\u0026q=48","likes_count":1,"categories":[{"name":"Science - Tech - Astronomy","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/986-science-tech-astronomy"}],"schema":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CreativeWork","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/214655-a-daytime-eclipse-moon-occults-venus","headline":"A Daytime Eclipse: Moon Occults Venus","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/site/apod/generated/e673e03b-9f97-40f3-a11c-9fa5c3d0af79.jpg?auto=compress,format\u0026fit=max\u0026w=1200\u0026h=1200\u0026q=48","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Specola-","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/298285-specola"},"datePublished":"2026-09-15T14:16:10-07:00","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/LikeAction","userInteractionCount":1}],"subjectOf":[{"@type":"Thing","name":"Science - Tech - Astronomy","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/986-science-tech-astronomy"}]}}