Antares Occulation

[Kevnool (Kev)]

Just looking through old pics and come across this from last year.
Antares and look harder there to see the limb of the moon.
I only had a breif period to grab a rush shot before visually observing and timing the grazing occulation.
So the camera was held to the eyepiece the old fashioned way.
All this was 8 degrees above the horizon.
I hope that if you look hard enough there that you will see the dark limb of the moon.

1st ever post in this section........Cheers Kev.

[Inmykombi (Geoff)]

HI Kev.
My second look revealed the Lunar Lim.

Well done. what details did you get from the Occultation ? Timing ?

Geoffro.

[Kevnool (Kev)]

Thanks for the reply Geoff yes it is hard to see but its there.
heres a graph of the event.
cheers Kev.

[Quark (Trevor)]

Hi Kev,
Just the first of many posts, I hope Kev.
Well done on capturing the Luna limb & Antares.

Cheers
Trevor

[Dennis]

Hi Kev

I had to copy the image into my image processing application and then adjust the Levels to see the now unmistakable Moon! Must have been a spectacular event visually, where the eye can accommodate a wider range of brightness levels.

Cheers

Dennis

[StephenM (Stephen)]

Nice capture Kev. As Dennis said, it must have looked great visually!

Cheers,
Stephen

[DaveGee (Dave Gault)]

Originally Posted by StephenM

Nice capture Kev. As Dennis said, it must have looked great visually!

Cheers,
Stephen

Yes it was spectacular. The observing site was about 130km north of Broken Hill, just south of Packsaddle. I can share my video of the event. Go here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Svkv8o74g

This was using my 8"LX90 that was left to run unattended while I observed the event visually, 200m to the south. The scope was defocused, a bit too much really, in an effort minimise the saturation of Antares A. Watch carefully and you'll see Antares B pop up above the limb just before the reappearances of Antares A.

I was not the only one to run unattended stations though. We had 8 observers and 13 stations.

[Kevnool (Kev)]

Thx all for the comments. Sorry Dave i should of also mentioned the video.
Cheers Kev.