Observation by Steve Knight: Saturn lunar occultation ingress

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Steve Knight

Observer

Steve Knight

Observed

2024 Aug 21 - 03:28

Uploaded

2024 Aug 21 - 06:25

Objects

Saturn
The Moon
Conjunction

Equipment

Celestron 9.25in SCT
ZWO ASI 462MC camera
iOptron AZ Mount Pro

Exposure

0.755 ms, gain 415

Location

Banbury

Target name

Saturn

Title

Saturn lunar occultation ingress

About this image

This is an extreme crop and also speeded up to comply with upload file size requirements. Apologies for the over exposed moon, I calculate its surface brightness as ~40x that of Saturn. Original video was 37 sec long.

Files associated with this observation

2024-08-21-0328_9-B_f0001_pipp.gif (2.6 MB)

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Comments

Steve Brown, 2024 Aug 21 - 07:27 UTC

Wonderful to see Saturn disappear like that. Glad you got to capture the full event.

Steve Knight

Steve Knight, 2024 Aug 21 - 08:38 UTC

Thanks Steve! It was a little warmer than the Mars occultation is 2022, much more comfortable and no need to dry out my telescope with a hair dryer.

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