Moon Occults Aldebaran

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menardre
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Moon Occults Aldebaran

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Last week the Moon occulted Aldebaran. I setup my Nikon D7100 on a tripod, set the intervelometer for one 1 second exposure every minute for 2 hours. I then selected 1 exposure every 5 minutes to generate a single stacked image. I also generated a time lapse movie. Due to the motion of the moon, I had to readjust the aim point. The only processing was flattening the background.


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Re: Moon Occults Aldebaran

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Cool Roger! Mind if I post it to the web blog?
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Re: Moon Occults Aldebaran

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Roger,

Nice work capturing that event.
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Re: Moon Occults Aldebaran

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Rebekah

Go ahead and post it...

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Very cool! Roger, you de Boss of the Graze Line!
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Cool technique, Roger. Event driven images allow for lots of creative shots. Nicely done. 8) 8) 8)

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Nice work Roger! I forgot to check it out myself so thanks for capturing the event for us!
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Roger,
That is so cool!
I'd love to see the movie too some time.
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