MOON & ANTARES OCCULTATION

Scorpius

 (ra: 16:29,40 / dec -26:25,92)

Photograph taken during Star Party in Martinez Buenos Aires. March 10 -11 2007

DATA

TYPE: Moon & Star Occultation

VISUAL MAGNITUDE: -12.12 / 1.03

SIZE: 31 arc minutes / na

DISTANCE: 391424 km / 600 light years

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Along its revolution arround the Earth the Moon cross in front of stars of the night sky. This event is called "ocultation". Most of the hiden stars are dim and quite dificult to see due the Moon brightness, however the Sky gaves us the chance from time to time to see bright stars ocultations as the one in above picture. From our location in Martinez, (north of Buenos Aires) there was no occultation at all, however Antares corssed asithontic through the hedge of the Moon.

IMAGE INFORMATION

SCOPE: Celestron C8 (SCT) Vixen GPDX Mount. Sky Sensor 2000

SKY CONDITIONS: VISUAL MAGNITUDE limite 3.5

CAMERA: Canon 20 Da @ f6.3

FILTRES: IDAS LPS 2"

EXPOSURES: One of 1/40 secs

PROCESSED: Photoshop CS