About one year ago on 30 January the Moon occulted (passed in front of) the planet Mars. The event happened around 10 pm MST. I was able to capture a sequence of images with an Orion 80mm ED f/7.5 refractor equipped with a field flattener and an Olympus E-M5iii camera. The scope was riding on a Celestron CG-4 motorized mount.
At the time Mars had an apparent diameter of 10.8 arcsec and the moon phase was 9.8-d old waxing gibbous.
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| 10:04 pm MST, about 4 minutes before contact. ISO 400, 1/640 s. |
Here is an animated sequence:
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| 10:07 pm MDT, just before first contact. |
Location: Santa Fe
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