For this week's APOD, I chose the picture called A Twilight Occultation, uploaded on 12/10/10. It is a picture of a thin crescent of the moon in the western horizon, and it was captured on December 6, 2010.
At this time, the moon also occulted, or passed, in front of Mars. Only some people in North America were able to see this occultation. The picture was taken in De Soto, Kansas in the United States. The Moon was only a few degrees above the western horizon. In the picture, a little dot is see next to the moon's crescent, and that would be Mars right after it came out from the Moon's sunlit edge. Also coming up this month is a total lunar eclipse on December 20/21, 2010. A lunar eclipse is when the Moon appears to be darkened as it passes through Earth's shadow.
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