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Old 03-02-07, 13:33
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Very nice image of the Moon and Saturn Don. You are now clearly ready to photograph next month's occultation of Saturn which occurs on the morning of 2 March 2007. The timings for Cambridge are 02:39 to 02:54. It will be a grazing occultation for Birmingham and anywhere approximately on a line going from the NW to SE. Anyone south or west of that line will not get an occultation, just a near miss but which is still a good photo opportunity. Anyone to the north or east of that line get the full occultation and hence a chance of getting Saturn partly covered by the Moon.

While here can I also mention that on Saturday 3rd March there will be a total eclipse of the Moon the whole of which is visible from the UK. Sorry Sassan but you only get to see part of the eclipse at moonrise. There are more details at http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html

The timings are
21:30:04 Partial eclipse starts
22:43:49 Total eclipse starts
23:58:01 Total eclipse ends
01:11:46 Partial eclipse ends

These times are GMT or UT

Attached are two images that I took of an occultation of Saturn on 03/11/01

Dave
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