Re: [APML] Occultation of Eta Leo

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 Roland...

     Pretty cool catching Eta Leonis being occulted... one of those 'happy 
accidents' ehh? Your web-page mentioned a dob mounted OTA... did you get these 
shots afocal? The contrast seems a little pale... probably a little over-
exposure... but that's the compromise necessary to record the much fainter star 
on film, I suppose.

 Great web-site construction, too!

 Geoff Powers


> 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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