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Old 28-05-2009, 11:15 AM
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DaveGee (Dave Gault)
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Originally Posted by iceman View Post
This morning I was able to capture my first Galilean Moon occultation, when Ganymede passed in front of Io, covering about 40% of the volanic moon.
That's a fantastic effort Mike! These mutual events are wonderful oportunities to make animations that show the astronomical clockwork of the solar system.

I trust you are supporting the PHEMU09 Campaign of Jovian and Saturnian Mutual Occultations and Eclipses program. See...
http://www.imcce.fr/fr/presentation/.../index_en.html

If not, it's easy to do. Ask me how!
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