Observation by Dawson: Lunar occultation of Saturn

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Dawson

Observer

Dawson

Observed

2024 Aug 21 - 03:29

Uploaded

2024 Aug 21 - 11:06

Objects

Saturn
The Moon
Conjunction

Equipment

C14
ASI174MM

Location

Nottingham

Target name

Lunar occultation of Saturn

Title

Lunar occultation of Saturn

About this image

Lunar occultation of Saturn as imaged with an ASI ZWO 174MM camera at prime focus on Celestron C14. Animated GIF played at 16x speed from 03:28:23 to 03:29:53.

Amazing to see the planet appraoch the lunar limb so quickly and then disapear, but also very difficult to get both the planet and the Moon siuitably exposed - you can see I went for exposing Saturn optimally! I think the two jumps in the footage was my laptop buffering as these appear in the raw SER files too.

Files associated with this observation

Saturn occultation AG.gif (2.3 MB)

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