Here is a photo of the planet Venus, adorning the crescent of the Moon. This photo was taken at about 19:30 hours, using a Canon A-70 digital camera. This spectacle is said to occur once every 116 years. I feel lucky that I could view this heavenly sight.

This is what Jeremiah Horrocks, the first person to view this had to say :


Oh! then farewell, thou beauteous queen!
Thy sway may soften natures yet untamed,
Whose breasts, bereft of the native fury,
Then shall learn the milder virtues.
We, with anxious mind, follow thy latest footsteps here,
And far as thought can carry us;
My labours now bedeck the monument for future times
Which thou at parting left us. Thy return
Posterity shall witness; years must roll away,
But then at length the splendid sight
Again shall greet our distant children's eyes.