United States President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" class="extiw" title="w:Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> stops to view the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/moon" class="extiw" title="w:moon">moon</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus" class="extiw" title="w:Venus">Venus</a> before boarding the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_One" class="extiw" title="w:Marine One">Marine One</a> helicopter at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder_Municipal_Airport" class="extiw" title="w:Boulder Municipal Airport">Boulder Municipal Airport</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder,_Colorado" class="extiw" title="w:Boulder, Colorado">Boulder, Colorado</a> half an hour after addressing students at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Colorado_at_Boulder" class="extiw" title="w:University of Colorado at Boulder">University of Colorado at Boulder</a> on 24 April 2012. The President was facing west towards the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_Range" class="extiw" title="w:Front Range">Front Range</a> foothills of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountains" class="extiw" title="w:Rocky Mountains">Rocky Mountains</a> (background) at 20:18 local time while the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_phase" class="extiw" title="w:Lunar phase">waxing crescent moon</a> 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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/astronomical_unit" class="extiw" title="w:astronomical unit">astronomical units</a>, was 31.91% illuminated, and set at 23:33, local time.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Pete_Souza" class="extiw" title="w:en:Pete Souza"><span title="American photographer">Pete Souza</span></a>
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Taken on 24 April 2012, 20:18:20 (Mountain Daylight Time)
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