Occultation of Saturn by the Moon, Nov 3, 2001


We had intermitent clouds in the evening, but got enough widows to see the occultation. The seeing, however was pretty bad. Out of hundreds of frames, i was able to select the ones below that are acceptable. I took the images with a Phantom v4 high-speed camera, and the 12'' at 3000mm focal length.

 begin of occultation, frame 1
 begin of occultation, frame 2
 begin of occultation, frame 3
 begin of occultation, frame 4
 

 end of occultation, frame 1
 end of occultation, frame 2
 end of occultation, frame 3
 end of occultation, frame 4
 end of occultation, frame 5
 end of occultation, frame 6
 end of occultation, frame 7
 end of occultation, frame 8

 avi file (2M) showing the end of the occultation