Europa Occulting Io, May 12

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #1 22-05-2009, 09:32 PM

On the morning of May 12 (May 13 local time) at about 6.20am there was an occultation of Io by Europa. The close proximity of this event to sunrise caused a lot of seeing problems, and so the quality of the frames in the animation are not so good.

Io is approx 1" in diameter, and Europa is a litle smaller at 0.8".

I'll probably clean this up a bit later and add some captions etc.

cheers, Bird

JD2439975 (Justin) · #2 22-05-2009, 11:37 PM

Fantastic effort again Bird.

Loving these occultation animations, such small targets.
Never seen anything like them before, keep them coming please.

JD

Liz · #3 23-05-2009, 07:49 AM

WOW factor again Bird

:thum bsup:

Lester · #4 23-05-2009, 07:55 AM

Well done Anthony, you cannot do anything about the seeing conditions, but your capture is first class of this event.

Quark (Trevor) · #5 23-05-2009, 11:47 AM

Another well planned and well executed image set Bird.

You are making this look easy, but I don't recall anyone else achieving anything like it.

Well done and congratulations on another fine result.

Regards
Trevor

Starkler (Geoff) · #6 23-05-2009, 02:36 PM

Great work