![Photomontage using 3 pictures of the occultation of Venus by de Moon from the Teide Observatory. Credit: Daniel López (IAC). Photomontage using 3 pictures of the occultation of Venus by de Moon from the Teide Observatory. Credit: Daniel López (IAC).](/sites/default/files/styles/crop_square_2_2_to_320px/public/images/news/prensa1052_1805.jpg?itok=V2jAyEyp)
This morning before dawn, Venus “hid” behind the Moon for about an hour as seen from the Canaries. The occultation began, in the islands, at 07:27:23 local time (an hour later in the Peninsula) and not until 08:28:01 did it reappear on to the right of the lunar disc. The Teide Observatory, at Izaña (Tenerife), was a privileged place to enjoy the occultation due to its clear, virtually cloudless sky. A team from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), comprising the astrophysicist and popularizer Alfred Rosenberg and the astronomical photographer Daniél López, went up to the
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