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Old 09-03-2014, 05:31 PM
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DaveGee (Dave Gault)
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Now I expect DaveG will pop in and tell me I've got it all back to front...
Zzzzzz Hey, did someone mention my name...

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The coloured dots and crosses are places where the star was seen disappearing or reappearing by different observers...
Correct.

Dots are video observations and crosses are visual observations.
Red = disappearances
Green = reappearances

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The dark part is the solid part of the moon and the light dotty part where the true lunar profile might lie as measured in the past by either other lunar occultations/Kaguya spacecraft/the LRO or other recent lunar orbiters....
the dark bit is space or nothing, and the grey/green (whatever) dots are RADAR soundings from the Kaguya Lunar Orbiter.

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