Saturn / Moon

[Rocket Pooch]

Can anyone with skymap pro or one of those fancy planetarium progs check Saturn on the 02:56am on the 2/3/7 looks like its going to be interesting.

Chris

[JohnP]

Chris,

Looks like a date for the diary...

Checked SMP & looks like moon will eclipse Saturn (just..) -

Starts at approx 03:42
Disappeared completely by approx 03:49
Reaapears approx 03:50
Finished approx 03:58

Moon is at approx 30 deg in West so should be reasonably well placed.

Cool photo opportunity....

John

[Rick]

The BAA handbook lists these planetary occultations for Greenwich:

March 2nd UT 02:43 - 02:56 Saturn (grazing)
May 22nd UT 19:10 - 20 17 Saturn
June 18th UT 14:03 - 15:22 Venus (in daylight...)

There's also one of Uranus on February 18th, but it's within 2 degrees of the horizon at the time.