At the time Venus appeared 36 percent sunlit and 34 seconds across, but it will be a nearly full 10 second wide disk when the Moon catches up to it again on August 1st.
Lunar occultations are remarkable manifestations of celestial motion.
In a small telescope you can watch as a star seems to linger on the Moon's limb for a few seconds before suddenly vanishing. An hour or more later, just as abruptly, the star emerges from the disk's other side. The startling suddenness of these events proves that the Moon has no atmosphere and also that stars have tiny diameters as seen from Earth. When the Moon is waxing toward full, stars almost always disappear on its dark limb and are thus easy to track. Reappearances follow on the bright limb, but these are more difficult to watch or time because of the overwhelming glare.