Saturn Occultation - 4th August 2014 @5m focal length

[Screwdriverone]

Hi All,

Here are the links to my captures for Disappearance around 9:20pm and re-appearance around 10:13pm from Sydney.

Used a ZWO ASI 120MC webcam and 5 x powermate on the 200mm Newtonian reflector on the HEQ5 Pro.

Videos straight from the camera but simply downsized from 1280x960 to a more manageable 640x480 for upload.

Disappearance: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UA9kTwXhEk) You can see the moon Mimas? disappear with a pop after the rings vanish....:)

Re-appearance: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxFvlOPcwlI) I was adjusting the exposure to show the moon surface at one point to show the contrast between the two.

A couple of screen grabs below as a teaser. :D

Two occultations in the same year - inconceivable!!!!


Cheers

Chris

[RB]

That's pretty cool Chris !

:thumbsup:

[johnnyt123]

Brilliant!!!

[Suzy]

Very nice, Chris :thumbsup:.
Actually- 3 occultations of Moon & Saturn. The first one earlier this year was a daytime one which proved challenging for many people. Colin Legg from Western Australia took amazing pics and a timelapse of that one.

I'm still giddy with excitement after last night's one :D.

[Screwdriverone]

Thank you Andrew, John and Suzy.

You are right Suzy, but it was only two that I captured, this one and the May one, although this time I also got (most) of the reveal which I didn't get at all last time....:)

I might have to find some music to add to these perhaps?

Cheers

Chris

[Larryp]

Great shots, Chris

[Inmykombi]

Well worth the effort Chris, Nicely done.

[multiweb]

Nicely done. :thumbsup:

[Screwdriverone]

Thank you Marc :D



Glad you liked it Geoff, cheers ;)



Thanks Laurie, I appreciate the compliments. :thumbsup:

[andyc]

That's excellent, both the images and the timelapse. And the Mimas bonus was nice too!

[Screwdriverone]

Thanks Andy! :D

[Shiraz]

really good work Chris - must have been exciting to watch it happen.

[Screwdriverone]

Thank you Ray :D

Yep, apart from the few clouds at the beginning and almost missing the complete re-emergence, it really got the adrenalin going as the time ticked closer to each event. The seeing was all over the place but I am glad I could capture this and the May one as well.

The ol' 8" got dusted off again for some more planetary work, it's been quite lonely since I got the ED80 :(

Cheers

Chris

[Suzy]

I didn't think it need it. But War of the World's I think would be pretty cool :D ...... *dom!* *dom!* dom!*
Or however it is that those notes are spelled in written form :lol:.