Mars Occulted in Australia 5.30am New Years Day!

[foc (Ross)]

I have never seem Mars occulted by the moon so it was great to catch up with this event. I found this imaging a bit hard as Mars was moving fast relative to the moon and daylight and low altitude created difficulties. Images taken at f10 with ZWO 485mc on Celestron C8 on EVO.

[Tropo-Bob (Bob)]

Thanks Ross, they are good images with the Moon being so low to the horizon at the time. I was too far north, but saw Mars close beside the Moon just before 5am.

[Eris (Gerard)]

Great shots Ross. Well done!

[Tinderboxsky (Steve)]

Great result and thanks for sharing. I was all set up to image this event but was thwarted by an unusual coastal fog rolling in at the last minute..

[Dennis]

Wow - that is so cool, what a great catch.

Cheers

Dennis

[foc (Ross)]

Thanks Gerard, Bob, Steve and Dennis. Yes I was lucky having clear skies given I have been so often thwarted by cloud and being in the right location.

Bob I notice that the Northern-Hemi astrofolk were talking about a bigger Mars occultation event at the end of this year...perhaps you are in position to catch that one?

[multiweb (Marc)]

That's awesome Ross. Good catch.

[foc (Ross)]

Thanks Marc...just wish the Martian disc at the time was not around the size of Uranus so I could have caught some detail..um no I do not mean that as a personal comment