The Moon occults Saturn: 4 Jan. 2025.
We observed the rare occultation of Saturn by the Moon, covering the whole event. Here it is an image summarizing our experience.
Saturn occultation by the Moon, 4 Jan. 2025.
The image above comes from the combination of several exposures, remotely taken with the ARTEC250+Paramount ME+C3Pro61000EC robotic unit available as part of the Virtual Telescope Project facility in Manciano, Italy, and covering both the start and the end of the phenomenon.
The occultation started around 17:43 UTC, with Saturn disappearing behind the dark limb of the Moon (the upper left sequence). 47 minutes later, the ringed planed showed back, emerging from the bright border of our satellite (bottom right).
What a memorable view, we were happy to bring the opportunity to see this to the worldwide community.
We managed to share the even live, below is the podcast from our streaming:
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