By Stephen Montag | 2024-08-20
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The Lunar occultation of Saturn
On 08/21/2024 05:31 am by Roberto Ortu| Cabras, Sardinia, Italy
On the morning of 21 August 2024, at 5:31 local time, the occultation of Saturn by the Moon occurred. This is an image of me taken from a video in which the lunar rim and the planet were almost "in contact" just before the beginning of the phenomenon. You can see the great difference in brightness and apparent size of the two celestial bodies, with Saturn being many times larger but also vastly more distant than our satellite. The event lasted about an hour.
Telescope Celestron 114/910 Newton
Planetary camera QHY5L-II-C
Filter UV IR cut
Q-Barlow 2,25X Baader Planetarium
Laptop computer
Software: Sharpcap 4.1, PIPP, Astrosurface V1, GIMP
