April 26, 2009 Conjunction : Crescent Moon, Mercury and the Pleiades star cluster

Nine months later ... here is the best of the three pictures I shot with a simple digital still camera. The expanded version shows what appears to be the Pleiades star cluster inbetween the cresent Moon and Mercury.

Watch the Occultation of Venus by the Cresent Moon on April 22, 2009

Click on the link below to watch the video from April 22, 2009.
Occultation