[APML] Occultation of Eta Leo

[Roland Roberts <roland@astrofoto.org>]

I discovered, after the fact, that while taking images of the moon on
Thursday morning, I captured several shots very near the time of the
occultation of Eta Leo.  This was completely accidental as I had no
clue; I was just trying to fill out a lunar phases series.  

I've put an image on my home page at http://www.astrofoto.org/ with an
image taken less than a minute before the occultation.  This is a
stack of 4 1/15 second exposures taken in quick succession.  I
actually have another set with longer exposures where you can see Eta
Leo merge with the lunar limb.

The 4-image stack helped reduce grain, a bit of creative masking and a
Gaussian blur reduced it further.

roland
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