Uranus occultation this evening (New Years Day)

[Jeremy Shears]

Just a reminder that this evening Uranus will be occulted by the Moon, at least for those north of the bold line 1 in the attached chart from the Handbook. Those on the line will experience a graze. Times (from Tim Haymes’ column in the current Lunar Section Circular; UT):

Birmingham 22:39
Manchester 22:31
Leeds 22:30
Edinburgh 22:20
Aberystwyth 22:33
Belfast 22:19

Hopefully people will get good views. Weather prospects are not good in Cheshire. At least the smoke from NYE fireworks will have cleared (even if the fog persists)

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[Alex Pratt]

Jeremy, thanks for the reminder.
I’ve attached the worldwide list – from Occult software.
Cheers,
Alex.

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1. Uranus-2023-01-01.txt

[Alex Pratt]

My C11 at f/10 and Watec 910HX camera caught the tiny ghostly disc of Uranus up to about a minute before disappearance at the dark limb, then it was swamped by the thin cloud and glare from the gibbous Moon.

Alex.

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