As the night sky slowly rotates from East to West, the Moon is moving at an even slower pace from West to East against the backdrop of the stars. Its movement is so slow that we can hardly detect it but from one night to the next we see the Moon has in fact moved to a different part of the sky. However, when the Moon is very near to another bright object like a planet or star we can see the distance between them very slowly decreasing or in creasing and sometimes we can see the Moon actually move in front of the Star or planet which is called an occultation. This happened on April 1st when the Moon occulted multiple stars in the Pleiades cluster
