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Images of Occultations

An Occultation is when one body passes in front of another. Its a line of sight effect and can sometimes only be seen from certain parts of the Earth.

The image below is of an Occultation of Mars by the Moon.

This image was taken through my scope at prime focus. Mars (top left), was occulted at 19:13:40UT on 1999/12/12 from where I was in the UK. I took this image at 18:42 with the scope stopped down to 5 inches. I used different shutter speeds, and this one was 2 seconds. Kodak Elite crome was used.