My first occultation?

[ken spencer]

I was looking at the Moon tonight through my new 250 Dobsonian after collimating my scope for the first time and decided to point it to the moon. Lovely sharp view but on the dark side of the moon looking at the grey Horizon I noticed a sharp point of light and it was a star!! I watched it as it went behind the moon, an amazing sight!! (well it was for me) I logged the time at 18.45 and looked up the position in RedShift on My Ipad and the only bright star in that area (6th Mag) was one called BSC1459. Am I sad? It really made my night. Will try Saturn later if the clouds stay away.

Ken