This was an exceptionally challenging shoot. The moon was barely visible at a very thin crescent phase, with very bright skies and fast-moving clouds. I utilized my full astrophotography rig for this event - a William Optics 61mm refractor with ZWO ASI 2600MC Pro camera on my Celestron CGEM mount. Due to the speed of the clouds and the large number of them, I resorted mostly to screen caps to get what I could. However, the image above is a PNG captured straight from SharpCap. I thought it looked pretty nifty, so I'm posting it here.
By the way, an "occultation" is where, from a certain vantage point on Earth, one object passes in front of another. We were lucky to be at the right place given the event today, where the moon passed in front of Venus in the midafternoon hours.
Images below show some more screen caps of the event.
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