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From : Alan Ianson
Date : Fri Apr 11 2025 00:08:02

                        Astronomy Picture of the Day

    Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our
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                    written by a professional astronomer.

                                2025 April 11

                             The ISS Meets Venus
                    Image Credit & Copyright: A.J. Smadi

   Explanation: Made with a telescope shaded from bright sunlight by an
   umbrella, on April 5 a well-planned video captured a crescent Venus
   shining in clear daytime skies from Shoreline, Washington, USA at
   11:57AM Pacific Time. It also caught the International Space Station in
   this single video frame. In close conjunction with the bright planet,
   the faint outline of the orbital outpost seen at a range of about 400
   kilometers appears to be similar in size to the slender planetary
   crescent. Of course the ISS is much smaller than Venus. Now appearing
   as planet Earth's brilliant morning star and climbing above the eastern
   horizon in predawn skies, inner planet Venus was nearly 45 million
   kilometers from Shoreline.

                      Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend
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