Antares Occulation 23/24 April 08

[WadeH (Wade)]

Well here they are.

Not fantastic but they were shot through cloud and hand held using a Olympus 410 compact digital. Processing is minimal, just a little cropping and brightness adjustment.

Quite pleased overall. The way I look at it is at least I have some record of what I observed. Full report of event is in the observations forum.

[Dennis]

Hi Wade

Ahah, so that’s what it looked like in the West! Very nice photos given the technical challenges of the huge brightness variation and I assume captured using the afocal method. Thanks for showing us the view when Antares “popped” out the other end, a very different experience to the one I had in Brisbane.

Cheers

Dennis

[Matty P (Matt)]

Nice images Wade, you captured this event very well.

I'm amazing with clarity in the images considering they were shot hand held. I really like the last image showing Antaresorange colour.

Well done.

[rogerg (Roger)]

Good to see some shots of this, thanks Wade. There's been lots of discussion about it on ASWA's newsgroup but no photo's yet.