Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Lunar Occultation of Saturn

This morning, August 2024 at 5h30, planeet Saturn disappeared behing the Moon. Almost an hour later, around 6h26, the planet return from behind the Moon.

The PC was not ready to capture the first moment of occultation and therefor I took some afocal pictures and followed the phenomen visuel. The second moment was imaged using ASI224MC.

Setting: Dobson OrionXT12 (300mm) f/4.9
Camera : ASI224MC
Software : SharpCap4, Astrosurface, CS4
Afocal : iPhone on 9mm ocular.