Occultations

Daylight occultation of Venus 18/06/07  15:30 GMT


Canon 20Da with 400mm lens.


Lunar Occultation of Saturn 02/03/07

This is a combination of 9 images taken in the early hours of Friday 2 March 2007 as the Moon glided past Saturn. I can count and know that there are 10 Saturns - the third from the top/left is a clone of one of the others. The remaining 9 are genuine separate images. The pictures are not at equal intervals but the whole sequence lasted 50 minutes. Canon 20Da at prime focus of VC200L.

Lunar occultation of Saturn 16/04/02

These pictures were taken with an 80mm refractor. My view to the West is interrupted by trees and so it was necessary to keep moving the scope to get a clear view. This was not practicable with the 200mm scope.



Just before

Rings nearly gone

Just after










Just after - detail

Lunar occultation of Jupiter 23/02/02
 These pictures were taken with an 80mm refractor. My view to the West is interrupted by trees and so it was necessary to keep moving the scope to get a clear view. This was not practicable with the 200mm scope.


Jupiter's moons were already occulted. Jupiter itself is just about to be covered by the dark limb of the Moon

Jupiter just disappearing behind the Moon.

Jupiter nearly covered by the Moon.

Lunar occultation of Saturn 3/11/01


Saturn about to disappear.   Published in    Feb 2002 in article by J. Kelly Beatty on
A Saturn-Moon Spectacle
 

Saturn just emerging.   Published in  Feb 2002 in article by J. Kelly Beatty on
A Saturn-Moon Spectacle

Saturn fully emerged.

 

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