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Old 25-04-2019, 11:56 PM
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Tinderboxsky (Steve)
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Occultation Reappearance

A fast moving band of low cloud materialised just in time to obscure my view of Saturn’s reappearance on the dark side!!!
I got my first glimpse of Saturn about 25 seconds after it’s reappearance with the cloud continuing to clear.
About five minutes later, most of the cloud had gone and there were faint strands of high cloud nicely illuminated by the Moon washing across the FOV. I brought the magnification down to 25 to give a wonderfull wider FOV with the Moon, Saturn in all it’s glory, some field stars and the illuminated strands of high cloud washing across. The simmering had settled quite a bit and the terminator of the Moon was now it’s spectacular self.
I then retreated out of the gale.
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