Observation by Steve Knight: Saturn lunar occultation egress

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Steve Knight

Observer

Steve Knight

Observed

2024 Aug 21 - 04:16

Uploaded

2024 Aug 21 - 08:33

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 egress

About this image

48 minutes later I had the egress of Saturn from the unlit limb of the moon. Again this is an extreme crop and speeded up to comply with upload file size requirements. Original video was 91 seconds duration.

Files associated with this observation

2024-08-21-0420_1-B_f03950_pipp.gif (2.7 MB)

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Comments

Dawson, 2024 Aug 21 - 10:11 UTC

Nice. Our emergence was clouded out by a thin dense cloud, ONLY over Saturn!

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