Venus with a Halo in the Evening; The Moon Occults Mars in the Morning – Feb 17-18, 2020 time lapses and photos Venus with a half halo Venus with a full halo Venus with halo and Starlink satellites Composite showing many Starlink overpasses (the parallel lines under Venus, save the one that crosses the other which is an airplane). Venus with a halo and Zodiacal light at dusk Feb 18, 2020 at 4:33am MST, shortly before the lunar occultation of Mars started. This photo was aired on Spectrum News in Austin, TX today. Feb 18, 2020 at 5:54am, just after the occultation ended The thin layer of clouds makes the period of occultation a little more interesting. I wish I’d started about 30-45 minutes earlier. You will barely see Mars at the start, on bottom left of the moon, before it disappears. This is a cell phone capture. Both of my cameras are left of center. I was worried the clouds would obscure Mars when the occultation ended. I ran my usual time lapse until 4:00am MST when I got up to prepare for the occultation. There were many jays in the time lapse at sunrise, possibly Pinyon jays. See the jays sitting on the sage? Lots of jays (pinyon jays?) at sunrise. One even landed on my camera.