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The Moon passes in front of several stars in the Pleiades cluster in an occultation this morning, best seen from North and ...

The next Pleiades occultation that will favor North America will come on the morning of Sunday, July 20 and will involve a slender (23% illuminated) waning crescent moon.

Do not miss the last chance this year to witness the Moon cross the glittering Pleiades in a rare celestial alignment visible across North and Central America.

On July 20, 2025, the Seven Sisters celestial event will be visible across the United States and Canada.

Occultations of the Pleiades don’t occur every month, or even every year, because the Moon’s orbit is tilted with respect to the plane of Earth’s orbit around the Sun, called the ecliptic.

A rare lunar occultation, fading crescent moon, and an interstellar visitor make for a memorable week of stargazing in ...

During the morning hours of Sunday, Sept. 22, skywatchers will be able to watch a waning gibbous moon cross in front of probably the most popular of all the star clusters in the sky: the Pleiades.

Occultations of planets by the moon are fairly rare events for any given location on Earth, ... See the moon cross the Pleiades for the last time this year on July 20.

Mars will then reappear on the other side of the moon at 9:17 p.m. Lunar occultations can happen several times a year, but they only occur every couple of years with each planet, Miller said.