Saturn occultation September 18, 1997

Posted by Victor C. Rogus
on Thursday, July 19, 2012

The planet Saturn was occulted by the Moon on September 18, 1997.
I made this image with a 5 inch f9 Apochromatic Refracting telescope using the "eyepiece projection" method. (114 x magnification) The Moon was near Full phase and Saturn shone at 0.2 magnitude.

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