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Old 18-06-07, 17:09
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Well here is my attempt. The first part was clouded out and to be frank I thought there was nil chance of seeing anything. I noticed that there were some breaks in the cloud so set up SkymapPro to see at what stage the occultation was at. It told me that Venus was about a full Moon's width away from the Moon so I went out with binoculars to see what I could see.
There was the Moon but no sign of Venus. I was rather puzzled by this when a very bright spot appeared on the edge of the Moon.

I was totally unprepared so rushed in to get the camera etc, tried a couple of handheld shots as insurance and during some cloud was able to set up the tripod with the following result. Pity I didn't have my telescope set up. It turned out that SkymapPro was still in GMT

Did anyone else observe or photograph the occultation?

Dave
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