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                                2025 April 11
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                             The ISS Meets Venus
                 Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]A.J. Smadi

   Explanation: Made with a telescope shaded from bright sunlight by an
   umbrella, on April 5 a [5]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 [6]International Space Station
   in this single [7]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.
   [8]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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