Moon Spica Occultation 1am 29/3

[stardust steve]

Hi. Here's a quick image from early this morning(29/3) of the Moon Spica Occultation that never quite happened from my location. This was as close as Spica got.
Single image 1/320 exp, ISO-100.
8" f5 Newt-neq6 pro-500D.

Cheers.
Steve.

[Steffen]

Ah, I missed it. It was at 2:09am at my place and the sky was clear apparently. Bummer.

Cheers
Steffen.

[Dennis]

Great capture Steve - a lovely Moon image nicely processed!

Cheers

Dennis

[stardust steve]

Next time Steffen. In my opinion, it looked better naked eye than through the scope. With the naked eye view, i could appreciate it more just how close together they were. And it's always good to then turn the scope toward it.

[stardust steve]

Thanks Dennis. I was happy with how it turned out. Might have had a good patch of seeing. I did try and take a longer exposure for Spica and the intentions were to layer the two but the image was a total wash out.
I did take approx 30 secs of video (about 1000 frames) to stack in AS!2 a bit later. I will be interested to see the difference if any in the two imaging styles.