Keywords: Barack Obama looks at the moon and Venus.jpg 40 037949 -105 231033 region US-CO_scale 2500 Barack Obama stops to view the moon and Venus before boarding the Marine One helicopter at Boulder Municipal Airport in Boulder Colorado half an hour after addressing students at the University of Colorado at Boulder on 24 April 2012 The President was facing west towards the Front Range foothills of the Rocky Mountains background at 20 18 local time while the Lunar phase waxing crescent moon was 30° above the western horizon The moon was 400 817 kilometres distant 3 4 days old 11 98 illuminated and moonset followed at 23 07 Venus was at a distance of 0 488150 astronomical unit s was 31 91 illuminated and set at 23 33 local time 2012-04-24 20 18 20 Mountain Daylight Time http //www flickr com/photos/whitehouse/7161176956 White House Flickr account Pete Souza PD-USGov Uploaded with UploadWizard Barack Obama in 2012 Venus planet People with the Moon Moonset Blue sky with the Moon in the United States Photographs of the waxing crescent moon Barack Obama and Marine One Boulder Colorado Photographs by Pete Souza Taken with Canon EOS 5D Mark II Uploaded by O'Dea |