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Old 22-08-2019, 08:21 PM
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Saturn Occultation in nice seeing, a.k.a. here comes the big rock!

I had decent conditons for the occultation on the 12th. I recorded IR through disappearance, and have made a 2min animated sequence while Saturn was being hidden by the Moon. Some hills on the edge of the Moon are silhouetted against Saturn, and if you look closely, Tethys and Dione are barely visible to the left of Saturn. There's a few individual frames below.

It's too large for IIS, so view the animation at this link

Each frame is 1000 stacked video frames, overlapping (1-1000,500-1500,1000-2000 etc) to generate a smoother sequence across about 14,000 total frames. C14 at f/11.

I made a 2-frame composition with a properly-exposed Moon from a minute after disappearance
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