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By MarsG76
Hello Astronomers,
On the 12th August, between 18:34 and 19:21 we had a occultation of Saturn by the moon.
Of course I couldn't miss out of such a event so I took the day of work and setup my gear so that I could simultaneously capture the event as well as observe it.
I had the SCT recording with the 618C while observing it in the dob... literally at high power it looked like a Saturn rise... massive lunar horizon filling the field of view with a big Saturn rising from under it, literally animated and visible slowly moving up... Looked amazing in the eyepiece...
Photos or videos don't even come close to how good that looks live in the ep.
I had my eye on the eyepiece in the 14" Skywatcher during the occultation and recorded the start and finish times as soon as I noticed them:
Occultation Start 18:35.51 AEST
Reappearance Start: 19:19.37 AEST
Occultation Finish: 19:21.20 AEST
I stuffed up the first part video, the covering of Saturn because I still had iCap set to capturing a maximum of 5000 frames left from my planetary imaging, so at 25fps I barely got a 3.5 minute video that stopped just before the actual occultation started... yes I was kicking my self... but at least I watched it... I wasn't going to do the same mistake on the re appearance on the other side...
Sharing with you my photos and the video of the event... video is sped up to 400%.
Clear Skies.
MG
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By Ruud
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The small Moon image (Stellarium) shows the location of Gassendi.
Thank you for watching.
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Thanks for watching.
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200 frames at full resolution, stacked in Autostakert, processed in Registax6 and given a final polish in Windows Photo. Conditions far from ideal with thin high cloud.
I guess the previous owner will ask for it back...…..
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