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Old 06-04-2009, 12:44 PM
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DaveGee (Dave Gault)
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Originally Posted by StephenM View Post
Nice capture Kev. As Dennis said, it must have looked great visually!

Cheers,
Stephen
Yes it was spectacular. The observing site was about 130km north of Broken Hill, just south of Packsaddle. I can share my video of the event. Go here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Svkv8o74g

This was using my 8"LX90 that was left to run unattended while I observed the event visually, 200m to the south. The scope was defocused, a bit too much really, in an effort minimise the saturation of Antares A. Watch carefully and you'll see Antares B pop up above the limb just before the reappearances of Antares A.

I was not the only one to run unattended stations though. We had 8 observers and 13 stations.

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