Lunar Occultation of Mars
Taken by Peter Lowenstein on January 3, 2023 @
Mutare, Zimbabwe
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Camera Used: Panasonic DMC-ZS40
Exposure Time: 10/100
Aperture: f/6.4
ISO: 800
Date Taken: 2023:01:04 12:43:22
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If the sky had been clear on Tuesday evening a perfect Lunar Occultation of Mars would have been visible to the north of Mutare with the disappearance of the red Planet Mars behind the shadow side of the Moon at 8.54 pm and its reappearance on the sunlit side at 10.28 pm. Unfortunately the sky became cloudy in the afternoon with overcast and then rain which persisted until after midnight. However almost continuous observation of the sky from 8 pm until midnight provided just two photographs of Mars close to the Moon through small gaps in thinning cloud just before and an hour-and-a-half after the occultation. In the first It is barely visible through thin cloud immediately to the right of the Moon and in the second appears as an distinct orange dot one lunar diameter to the left. Camera: Hand-held Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS40 in sunset mode.
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