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Old 20-06-2020, 05:45 AM
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Venus occultation on other side of the world

This morning (Europe) Venus was occulted by the Moon in the morning, the first one in my life I really saw, earlier events were clouded out.
It was not visible from Australia.

The Moon was barely visible, Venus was easy. Apart from a few cirrus clouds, it was nice and clear. The entry I took with my Canon 6D behind my 110 ED refractor f/7 in prime focus and cropped the shots in half.

Not all shots succeeded, so I decided to film the exit with my Sony RX100M6 behind the eyepiece (second part of the video below). That is rather shaky due to the handheld nature.


Here a video.

https://www.skysurfer.eu/jwplayer/vi...kubXA0Ojo6NjAw
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