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Old 04-09-2006, 09:09 PM
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DaveGee (Dave Gault)
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Lunar Grazing Occultation Movie

I observed the Lunar Grazing occultation of 2 scorpii last Thursday evening (21st August). A graze occurs when the lunar polar region just... well grazes past the star. If you are in the right spot the star disappears behind lunar mountains and reappears in the valleys.

I used my 8"LX90, video camera and KIWI OSD gps time inserter to observe at least 20 events.

The video can be viewed here...
http://users.tpg.com.au/users/daveg/...unarvideos.htm

The whole series lasted over 3 minutes but the video is in fast forward.

Enjoy...
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DaveGee
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