Occultation Of Saturn By The Moon: 14th May, 2014.

[grant.earth (Grant)]

The high dynamic range version.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7422/...c02d8cae_t.jpgStacked Occultation Zoom by mars73, on Flickr
https://flic.kr/p/nkunFr

Originally Posted by grant.earth

A first processing photo from Mount Isa. With some more processing I hope to get a higher dynamic range to bring Saturn out more clearly.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7377/...10549050_n.jpg
ContactZoom by mars73, on Flickr

[pw (Peter)]

My best shot turned out to be from a hand-held iPhone over the eyepiece of my 200mm dob.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7401/1...1e5eb3ea_o.jpg

[gaa_ian (Ian)]

For us here in FNQ, the clouds rolled in ! I did manage to see Saturn close
To the moon I. The early part of the evening though & this was certainly
Worth the effort

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Despite intermittent clouds I was lucky enough to capture both the disappearance and reappearance of Saturn. The occultation lasted approximately 47 minutes here in Auckland.
I was not able to get colour because I used a high QE mono QHY5L-II and I don't have a separate filter wheel, only the integrated filter wheel in the QSI CCD camera.
To overcome the difference in brightness between Saturn and the Moon I took two separate exposures and combined them.

Image details:
Date: 14th May 2014
Exposure: Moon 209 x 0.6ms, Saturn 500 x 9.6ms
Telescope: Homebuilt 12.5" f/4 Homebuilt Serrurier Truss Newtonian
Camera: QHY5L-II mono
Filters: None
Taken from my observatory in Auckland, New Zealand

[tonybarry (Tony)]

Lovely work, Rolf. Always good to see your images.

Regards,
Tony Barry

[JetDragon (Dave)]

Very nice image Rolf -well done

[Suzy]

Oh my gosh, wow, there's just so many gorgeous pics on here you guys- thank you so much!
I had linked this thread in my original heads up post on our fb page, but I'm going to do another one either later or tomorrow for people to come and see these beautiful pics- there's so many of them! It's worth a share on it's own.

Well the weather was horrid here in Brisbane- it rained and a blanket of white cloud, so I was amazed it cleared for egress, yaaaay! Russ had the camera gear set up on my 10" scope using prime focus, and me, I'm a visual observer so grrrrr I didn't see much . If the weather was clear, the pics would've been taken at ingress and my observing at egress using high power with my XW5 . Possibly my best view was with the binoculars as Saturn was getting close to the moon before clouds took it out. I need photons on my eye...

Thank you so much to those that contributed their time and images to the Virtual Telescope Project run by Gianluca Masi. I was able to see what I was missing out on, along with others too! He posted a call here in astro events for contributions.

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Composition from my home observatory in Adelaide.

[noswonky (Peter)]

Here's my full video of the Saturn occultation showing not just the event, but also my scope/camera setup and with calming music to make you feel good while you watch it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe3_ZThizvk

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by noswonky

Here's my full video of the Saturn occultation showing not just the event, but also my scope/camera setup and with calming music to make you feel good while you watch it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe3_ZThizvk

Excellent work Peter.

Not only do I feel relaxed, but I also am now better informed.

Thanks for the video, it was entertaining and educational.

Cheers

Dennis

[astroron (Ron)]

Originally Posted by noswonky

Here's my full video of the Saturn occultation showing not just the event, but also my scope/camera setup and with calming music to make you feel good while you watch it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe3_ZThizvk

Very entertaining and informative presentation Peter.
Well done.
Cheers

[Suzy]

Excellent video Peter, thank you .

Here's our contribution- very basic , but Russ & I are absolutely chuffed at what a 10" dob using prime focus can do, wow!
It's egress- I wish Russ had captured it closer tho , but hey, I'm a happy astro chicky all the same that we got something!
Camera used is a Canon EOS-1100. No processing, just cropped.

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Great stuff everyone, terrific video's, awesome pictures by everyone, BRING ON AUGUST!