Sept. 18th, 1997 Occultation of Saturn by the Moon

 Featured by:

* Postepy Astronomii (in Polish; Vol. 4/1997, back cover)

* Expresso (in Portugueese; Nov. 8th, 1997, p.116-117: scanned TIF p.117)

* New York Times (Sept. 30th, 1997, p.C4: scanned TIF)

* SKY Online (Sky & Telescope)

* Astronomy Picture of the Day (also second time)

* Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Hot Images

* Miami University Moonlab Page
Images taken on Sept. 18th, 1997 with the 1.2-meter telescope at FLWO using the AndyCam CCD camera in 1kx1k binned mode (0.62 arcsec/pixel image scale). I used the H-alpha filter with 0.1sec exposure time. Saturn is enhanced by a factor of 2.5-3. Here I show several 800x800 sub-images showing the Saturn re-appearing from behing the Moon, taken every 35 seconds:

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Wes Colley made a movie out of these images.

This is a composite 900x900 image made ot two images taken few minutes apart, the Moon is about to cover Saturn:

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For better images download the TIF versions: Saturn0.tif, Saturn1.tif, Saturn2.tif, Saturn3.tif, Saturn4.tif.

Thanks to Jack Dembicky for telling me about the occultation.

See also my
*AstroImages * and my pictures of the Hale-Bopp comet.
All images © by Krzysztof Z. Stanek; please feel free, however, to use them for non-commercial purposes.

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