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08-06-2009, 09:11 AM
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Occultation of the Moon by brushtail possum
Hi all,
Having captured this rare astronomical event with my camera, I thought I'd better post it!
The stars of Scorpius are nicely visible in the background.
Cheers,
Stephen
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08-06-2009, 09:28 AM
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Nice shot Stephen. It looks like he is watching the moon rise. Very clever!
08-06-2009, 10:11 AM
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Gorgeous photo Stephen - well done! Next time, ask the critter, nicely, if he/she wouldn’t mind posing for the same shot on the branch of a tree!
08-06-2009, 10:34 AM
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Nice shot Stephen.
You would have to put that up with catching the ISS crossing the face of the sun.
Where did you find the information of the occultation timing?
08-06-2009, 11:05 AM
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hahahaha.....nice shot Stephen !!
Love it.
08-06-2009, 11:14 AM
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Good one Stephen.
08-06-2009, 11:49 AM
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Giant space Possums!
Nicely caught Stephen, thankfully he didn't deposit a dust bunny from a great height.
08-06-2009, 12:49 PM
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Possumtively fantastic! What a shot!
08-06-2009, 01:38 PM
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Excellent Stephen
08-06-2009, 02:02 PM
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That's great Stephen, you little possum, you!
08-06-2009, 02:26 PM
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Great capture Stephen.
08-06-2009, 03:49 PM
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A rare event indeed..
This is not likely to occur again within our lifetime is it ?
You have done well to capture it.
08-06-2009, 07:08 PM
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Quite unique, great shot
08-06-2009, 09:20 PM
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Thanks very much everyone!
08-06-2009, 09:21 PM
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Looks like he's been snacking on uranium.
08-06-2009, 09:40 PM
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Great shot Stephen!!
08-06-2009, 09:59 PM
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Nice shot
Looks like you been on a "Vision Quest". Stephen, companion animal, Possum
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08-06-2009, 11:45 PM
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Great Pic Stephen,
I just scanned through the AS&T in the Occultation section and found that this event was only visible from certain parts of Indooroopilly, but sadly nowhere else in Australia...
(congrats on the "pair of crescents" publish in the AS&T by the way! - Well done!)
Its good to see you got Messier 240V in the shot as well.
I just had another look at it and thought it quite special that the possum's tail and Scorpius' tail line up quite nicely with the same orientation.
Cracker of a shot, send that one in to AS&T and Spaceweather etc!
Well done
Cheers
Chris
09-06-2009, 06:46 AM
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Great shot and nice to see humour is alive and well!
09-06-2009, 07:02 AM
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The stars of Scorpius are nicely visible in the background.
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You would have to put that up with catching the ISS crossing the face of the sun. 
Where did you find the information of the occultation timing? 
