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Old 06-01-2012, 09:59 PM
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Did you see lunar occultation of planet or bright star ?

Seems obvious but it is not that the Moon occults 1st mag stars or planets.
There are only five bright planets of which Mercury is always close to the Sun and four bright stars: Aldebaran, Regulus, Spica and Antares.

These are rather rare.

I did only see :

1x Aldebaran
1x Antares
1x Saturn
4 attempts for Venus all clouded out
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