Grazing occultation of Antares, Western Australia 2009 Feb 17

Five people observed this grazing occultation 40km north of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia (near Bardoc). The scope for this video was an ETX125 - which was poorly aligned (because of major cloud problems leading up to the event). It also did not handle the wind well, with backlash in the drive not helping. The event lasts 4 minutes. The initial disappearance of Antares was missed. After a period Antares B reappears - and is visible by itself for a total of 113 seconds. There are two faint 'flashes' of B at 46m 31 and 33 secs. The final reappearance of Antares is gradual due to the diameter of the star.

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• Antares
• WA

[thefluffinator229]

camera shake, MOAR camera shake, TOO MUCH camera shake!

[geframa]

woow!! :) i have no words.

[heavenandearthgod]

I saw the red moon on 6th June 2009

in BC Canada

uploaded on my youtube site

[violentandfunky]

AMAZING!

[TROUBLESOME2009]

I learn something new everyday, what would this be mate?

[Chrisjr2007]

great!