A remarkable phenomenon .. the moon is paired with Venus on the Saudi skyline

Those interested in the skyline of Saudi Arabia and the Arab world saw the occurrence of a crescent moon at the end of the month in conjunction with Venus in the eastern horizon, separated by about two degrees in front of the constellation Spike, two hours and 20 minutes before the sunrise today, Friday November 13, 2020, so this astronomical phenomenon was an opportunity Perfect for photography.

For his part, the head of the Astronomical Society in Jeddah, Majid Abu Zahra, told Al-Arabiya.net, “The moon and Venus are in the second and third order of the brightest objects, respectively, after the sun in the dome of the sky, so they can be seen with the onset of morning light in a beautiful view.” .

Abu Zahra said, “The distance between the moon and Venus is so wide that they will not appear together in the telescope’s field of view, but they will be visible through binoculars.”

He also pointed out that “when you observe Venus through a telescope (not a telescope), its disk is illuminated by 84% by the light of the sun at the present time, but due to the movement of the planet in its smaller orbit around the sun, and when it is observed through the telescope, the size of its apparent disk will be It gets smaller during the coming months due to its distance from the earth, and this will be matched by a gradual increase in the lighting of its disk until it becomes fully lit in late March 2021 in preparation for the beginning of its return to the skyline.

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