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This is a spectacular image of the crescents of both the moon and Venus. This sight requires the use of a binocular telescope at the least to view, since it's too small for the naked eye alone. This image takes place right before an occultation, and Venus passed behind the moon, and reappeared an hour later.This picture was taken in Budapest, Hungary with a Nikon Coolpix 4300, which you can get at Amazon.com for just under $200. Venus is the brightest planet we can see in the solar system, and is only slightly smaller than the Earth. It has a dense atmoshere which fosters the hottest surface temperature of all the innner planets.