<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a5891c3d-3dde-4e25-b52b-db4a0fb9ee6e/40DC4922-1B43-46CF-A64A-3548297DA24C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/090417-ns-moon-venus.html" href="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/090417-ns-moon-venus.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.space.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/090417-ns-moon-venus.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.space.com/img/F9911516-9CF3-4613-8262-BBD59007AF83" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/090417-ns-moon-venus.html"><P>Sometime before or after sunrise Wednesday, April 22 – depending upon your location – the thin waning crescent moon will cover up Venus for most of North America. Since these are the two brightest objects in the sky aside from the sun, the view will be spectacular even to the unaided eye in many places. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/090417-ns-moon-venus.html"><P>This occultation, as such events are called, can best be watched from along much of the U.S. West Coast, where the entire event happens before sunrise. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/090417-ns-moon-venus.html"><P>Elsewhere in North American the event will be visible with varying degrees of splendor. In the East, for example, it will be a close conjunction, not an occultation, and it will occur during daylight.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/090417-ns-moon-venus.html"><P>The <A href="http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=090416-venus-moon-map-02.jpg&cap=The+setup+just+before+dawn+on+April+22+from+the+Southwestern+United+States%2C+and+just+before+the+Moon+blots+out+Venus.+The+scene+will+appear+different+from+other+locations.+Credit:+Starry+Night+software.">disappearance of Venus</A> will occur before sunrise to the west of the Continental (Great) Divide. If you draw a line from Jasper in Alberta, Canada to Sanderson, Texas, anywhere to the west (left) of this line will see Venus hidden prior to sunrise. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/40DC4922-1B43-46CF-A64A-3548297DA24C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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