BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, April 17 (Xinhua): A rare Mars occultation will be visible in the Brunei sky where the Red Planet will disappear behind the crescent of the moon. The moon will pass in front of Mars creating a lunar occultation visible only from a small region of central Asia including Brunei Darussalam, the Astronomical Society of Brunei Darussalam (PABD) said yesterday. An occultation is an astronomical phenomenon when one object is obscured by another object that passes between it and the observer. It is often described as a “perfect planet alignment”The last Mars occultation from Brunei occurred in May 2008. - Borneo Buleltin/ANNArticle type: metered User Type: anonymous web User Status: Campaign ID: 46 Cxense type: free User access status: 3

Source: The Star April 17, 2021 07:31 UTC