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Thanks Carole, a bit crazy going out when full of Covid, but it's been in my diary for 2 years, so if it was the last thing.......🤔

ok, so which airbase is that? As a Norfolk lad myself, I have a few possibilities in mind....🤔

No, not another image of the occultation, but the following evening, so nice to bookend the day with this one. Once again it was a fight with clouds, but the seeing was pretty decent when I could actually see Mars. I had to drop my captures to 3 mins as I couldn't run for 6 mins without clouds passing through, indeed some of the 3m SERS got cloud bombed too. I tried without the ADC, but colour dispersion was very apparant, so I put the ADC back in without capturing any bare vids. As @neil phillips previously suggested, I increased my capture rate from 5ms to 3ms, which seems to have worked pretty well. This is best 30% from 3x3m SERs, each separately processed, then de-rotated in WinJupos. The image was resized from 96dpi to 144dpi for display. Thanks for looking

That's lovely Suart. I got out again last night too - another fight with the clouds, but the seeing was quite good. About to post what I got.

I think it was a difficult night for almost everyone in the UK, but it is still good to see that so many people got to experience the event, even if it was a case of cloud dodging for a lot of the time.

Thanks Chris

Superb, thanks for sharing it.

I'd considerred that possibility, so had already unlocked during the day. I did have issues with the roof though as the build of frost under the rollers kept causing the roof opening to abort and close. It took about 5 attemps to get it fully open, but as you say, it was worth it.

Brilliant, you nailed that video Stephen, really good to see the start and end of occultation. I went back to bed as clouds rolled in and the Moon was setting into trees anyway

Superb, as most of your images are....👏

I've only just found this one Kostas (there are lots of posts to review since last night 🤔). You certainly made the best of the poor seeing, these are lovely.

Excellent image, lovely processing.

Excellent

Lovely Jupiters

These are really excellent Mars images Simon - you clearly haven't lost your touch

I love these and others' images of Mars, alongside the full Moon. Some albedo details coming through on the very small Mars - what's not to like....👏

That's an excellent Mars Chris

A very nice first Mars

Nicely done Rob

That's a really cracking presentation of the event Gav

Thanks Neil, mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday Sun, total idiots go out in freezing temperates full of Covid, just to howl at a full Moon occulting Mars.....🙄. I hope you quickly get through those issues...🤞

Thanks Kostas, I actually did a quick ROI and focus on Mars, just before the lunar limb came onto the chip, then a quick gain setting check for both Mars and Moon. It was all a bit of a rush, before I started capturing. I couldn't believe my luck to get that gap in the clouds, but it didn't last more than about 3 minutes, with clouds hitting me again right at the critical momemt of occultation. I was back in bed well before 6am with more paracetamol and slept until nearly 10am. C'sest la vie - at least I got a decent recod of it.

Thanks Stuart, catching the occultation, was certainly a lot more fun than catching Covid......🤣

That's a lovely image Mandy

That's excellent Neil, I had similar cloud troubles a bit further west than you, but they did clear away for me in the last few minutes before the occultation started, then back again just as Mars disappeared behind the Moon.