05.09.2015 - 22:37 [ Space ]

The Moon Hits a Cosmic Bull‘s Eye Tonight: How to See It

The moon will appear 52-percent illuminated and be just hours before it reaches last quarter phase. If the bright star Aldebaran isn‘t right next to the moon, it may be directly behind the lunar disk and about to pop back out. In a sense this can be called an „eclipse“ of Aldebaran by the moon, although the proper term for this celestial event is an „occultation.“