In the morning sky, the waning Moon slides down through Scorpius and Sagittarius.
(See the end note about enlarging illustrations. Moon and Sun are exaggerated 2 times in size. Arrows through the moving bodies show their movement (against the starry background) from 2 days earlier to 2 days later.)
The Moon passed closely north of the red supergiant star Antares, occulting (hiding) it, as shown on pages 105 in the “Occultations” section of Astronomical Calendar 2024.
But this happened 10 hours earlier than our scene, when southern and southeastern Asia were facing in the direction to see it.
Dwarf planet Ceres is in the scene, near the southernmost point of the ecliptic, but, at magnitude 9, far too faint for the naked eyue.
Occultations of language
I thought of using the occultation as an excuse for unloading some of my collection of ambiguous or otherwise ridiculous sentences seen in recent newspaper articles. Later, maybe.
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