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Summary: Onlookers across North America saw the Moon glide in front of Saturn and its mysterious rings on Feb. 20, 2002. Some observers even saw the event in broad daylight! Contact them directly for reprint permissions. |
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Robert Sandy, Roanoke County, Virginia, USA | #1, #2, #3, #4, #5 | R. Sandy: "All images were 1/8 second exposures with a 3 1/2-inch Questar and a digital camera." The first four images show Saturn disappearing behind the quarter Moon's dark limb. |
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Becky Ramotowski, San Antonio, Texas, USA | #1 | B. Ramotowski: "I temporarily abandoned my mother-in-law's birthday party, and rushed outside to a well-lit parking lot to capture this shot. Not bad considering we were only 5 miles from downtown San Antonio!" Photo details: Nikon Cool Pix 775 digital camera, hand-held to a Celestron 80 mm refractor; 13mm Televue eyepiece. |
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Ginger Mayfield, Divide, CO, USA | #1 | The occultation began and ended before sunset in Colorado, but that didn't stop Ginger Mayfield from observing the event. Using a TV 85 and a Olympus C-2100 digital camera, she captured this image of Saturn reappearing from behind the Moon. |
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Tom J. Martinez, Louisburg, Kansas, USA | #1 | T. Martinez: "These pictures were taken with my Nikon Coolpix 995 digital camera attached to Powell Observatory's 30-inch telescope in Louisburg, Kansas." |
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Dr. P. Clay Sherrod, Arkansas Sky Observatory, Arkansas, USA | #1, #2 | Photo #1 shows Saturn disappearing behind the Moon in broad daylight. "The sky was very bright, but crystal clear," says Sherrod. "The centered concentric rings are digital camera artifacts. This was a very difficult event to photograph; visually the rings were nearly absorbed into the color and brightness of the clear blue sky." Photo details: 0.31m Schmidt Cassegrain @ f/46; Olympus C-3000 digital camera; 1/10th sec. exposures @ ISO 100 |
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Carl Archuleta, Denver, CO, USA | #1, #2 | C. Archuleta captured this twilight image of Saturn reappearing from behind the Moon. He used a Nikon 995 digital camera. |
