 |  | Crescent Moon blending with Aldebaran
On April 28, 2017, a crescent Moon could be seen perfectly superimposed on Aldebaran, the red eye of the constellation Taurus. -- Photographer Giorgia Hofer poetically titles her AstroPic of May 5, 2017 "The Bull's Eye and the Young Mooo," & comments on "the lovely celestial PAIRING" -- I want to call it, due to its affinity with a stunning work of art, "a lovely celestial PAINTING.
Algebaran is a Red Giant, with more than 44 times the size of the Sun. It is one of the fifteen Fixed Stars of classical astronomy, & lies *65 lightyears away, halfway between Orion's Belt & the Pleiades. Lunar occultations were firat recorded in Athens in 509 & by E. Haley in 1718. -- (Wikipedia)
*Reminder: 1 LYr = 6 Trillion Miles! -- (NASA AstroPic Archive, May 5, 201) |
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