Occultation of the Moon by brushtail possum

[StephenM]

Hi all,

Having captured this rare astronomical event with my camera, I thought I'd better post it! :D The stars of Scorpius are nicely visible in the background.

Cheers,
Stephen

[peter_4059]

Nice shot Stephen. It looks like he is watching the moon rise. Very clever!

[Dennis]

Gorgeous photo Stephen - well done! Next time, ask the critter, nicely, if he/she wouldn’t mind posing for the same shot on the branch of a tree!

Cheers

Dennis

[[1ponders]]

Nice shot Stephen. :thumbsup: You would have to put that up with catching the ISS crossing the face of the sun. ;) Where did you find the information of the occultation timing? :D

[RB]

hahahaha.....nice shot Stephen !!
Love it.

:thumbsup:

[jjjnettie]

Good one Stephen.

[JD2439975]

Giant space Possums! :lol:

Nicely caught Stephen, thankfully he didn't deposit a dust bunny from a great height.

[bloodhound31]

Possumtively fantastic! What a shot!

Lovely frame of Scorpius behind it too!

Baz.

[spacezebra]

Excellent Stephen

Cheers Petra d.

[erick]

That's great Stephen, you little possum, you!

[Kevnool]

Great capture Stephen.
Cheers Kev.

[Inmykombi]

A rare event indeed..:lol:
This is not likely to occur again within our lifetime is it ?

You have done well to capture it.

[lacad01]

Quite unique, great shot :thumbsup:

[StephenM]

Thanks very much everyone!

Paul, the timing of these events is almost impossible to predict due to the highly variable orbit of the possum. Also, the path of totality is very narrow - in fact I could only just fit my camera in it!

Cheers,
Stephen

[Krumme]

Looks like he's been snacking on uranium.

[BerrieK]

Great shot Stephen!!

Ha ha variable orbit of the possum.. 'No possums were hurt in the making of this photo'.

Kerrie

[Glenhuon]

Nice shot :thumbsup:
Looks like you been on a "Vision Quest". Stephen, companion animal, Possum :)

Bill

[Screwdriverone]

Great Pic Stephen,

I just scanned through the AS&T in the Occultation section and found that this event was only visible from certain parts of Indooroopilly, but sadly nowhere else in Australia...

(congrats on the "pair of crescents" publish in the AS&T by the way! - Well done!)

Its good to see you got Messier 240V in the shot as well. :)

I just had another look at it and thought it quite special that the possum's tail and Scorpius' tail line up quite nicely with the same orientation.

Cracker of a shot, send that one in to AS&T and Spaceweather etc!

Well done

Cheers

Chris

[Analog6]

Great shot and nice to see humour is alive and well!

[[1ponders]]

:lol:

:thumbsup:

[Liz]

What a beauty Stephen!!!
Bet you were willing that possum not to move, as you set the camera up and pushed the shutter.

[AstroJunk]

Very well done!

I got a miss in Samford :(

[peter_4059]

Jonathan,

Was o-possum shot with a Kiwi OSD?

[StephenM]

Thanks again for the comments, everyone. Glad you like it.

This image just made it onto Spaceweather as well :)

http://spaceweather.com/

Cheers,
Stephen

[StephenM]

Thanks Chris! Still waiting for my copy to arrive.

Cheers,
Stephen

[Liz]

Yeah ... congrats Stephen!!

[StephenM]

Thanks Liz!

[jjjnettie]

Well done on being chosen for Space Weather too.

[StephenM]

Thanks Jeanette!

[h0ughy]

congrats on your spaceweather showing

[Ric]

Well done Stephen, that is a brilliant image.

Cheers

[StephenM]

Thanks very much David and Ric!

Cheers,
Stephen

[RB]

As h0ughy said, congrats on making Spaceweather mate !!!

[StephenM]

Thanks Andrew! It's the first time on Spaceweather for me, so I'm happy.

Cheers,
Stephen