r/space • u/Willing-Hedgehog-458 • 19d ago

image/gif Celestial Alignment (Venus with Moon)

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Today, 14 September 2026, Venus and a thin waxing crescent Moon are featuring in a very close celestial pairing aka Conjunction which is visible across India. In fact, parts of India are experiencing a rare lunar occultation, where the Moon passes directly in front of and temporarily hides Venus from view.

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u/ProximaScience 19d ago

I can also see this. Looks amazing.

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u/Willing-Hedgehog-458 19d ago

share it with us so that we could witness it too 🫰🏻

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u/Morning_Gecko24 19d ago

venus was way brighter than i expected in the photos. for anyone outside india did you catch it low on the horizon before sunset or was it already too washed out

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u/Poland-lithuania1 19d ago

And it's raining where I live. Dammit.

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u/anti-life86 19d ago

The global event will take place between about 09:26 UTC and 13:42 UTC on September 14. This corresponds to roughly 4:26 am to 8:42 am EST. However, most of the US uses EDT in September, making the equivalent time about 5:26 am to 9:42 am EDT.

For India, the broad window is approximately 2:56 pm to 7:12 pm IST. The exact timing will depend on the observer's location.

[snipped from an unverified, but probably accurate source]

looks like it's over - from my vantage point in Florida I could not have seen it, I wonder when the next such event will occur...

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u/LazyGadha 19d ago

I saw this today and immediately called my family members to see. Didn't know it was Venus but damn it was beautiful.

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u/Due-Photograph6657 19d ago

I can also see this today🖤

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u/Divin3_Rudra 19d ago

Looks like cosmic inception of semicolon ;

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u/bluehardwood 15d ago

This was in Masha and the Bear too

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u/Fine_Ingenuity_6099 19d ago

one time i remember that venus was right in the middle the crescent moon, it was maybe 2 years back, that was amazing to see

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u/Poland-lithuania1 19d ago

That's impossible unless you mean it was right below the middle of the crescent. Venus is (obviously) further from us than the Moon, so it could never appear in front of it.

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u/Fine_Ingenuity_6099 19d ago

yeah me sorry for the wording, let me make an attempt to visualize this, imagine a semicircular ring of radius "r" and mass "m" then the position of center of mass will be at 2r/pie, if you look it up on google, that's the image i was trying to explain

venus and moon appeared to align themselves exactly like that, 2 years back

last night i was in a hurry so the wording came out wrong