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Community photo entitled Lunar occultation of Saturn by Soumyadeep Mukherjee on 10/15/2024 at Kolkata, India

Lunar occultation of Saturn

On 10/15/2024 02:06 am by Soumyadeep Mukherjee| Kolkata, India

Right after midnight on 15th September, the moon occulted Saturn. This was visible from Asia and Africa, including where I live, India. The disappearance view was stunning and visible to the naked eye. The reappearance, however, was not exciting since Saturn was not visible to the naked eye from my location due to poor seeing. I captured the sequence for 1 hour, starting 30 minutes before disappearance and ending 30 minutes after reappearance.

I took an image every 5 minutes during this period. The trajectory of Saturn during the occultation can be figured from the image. A separate set of 200 images were captured 1 hour before the occultation of the lunar disk.

Nikon D5600, Sigma 150-600c, iOptron Skyguider Pro, Leofoto 364c + LH 40

PIPP, Autostakkert3, Adobe Camera Raw, Photoshop