Lunar occultations of stars / planets

Frank Ryan · Post by **Frank Ryan** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 7:58 pm

After the surprise observation of the lunar occultation
of P3 Leo tge other night it spured me into
looking at upcoming events like it.
Sorry to say.. I couldn't find any!
Not for the next 12 months anyhow.
There is a nice early morning conjunction
of a lot of the planets in 1012
(the famous line up & end of days
stuff because of the Myan calandar ending)
I only gave it a short quick scan so I must
go at it again in more detail but those
occultations are rare enough.

Frank Ryan · Post by **Frank Ryan** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 8:27 pm

whoa. hang on,
I just checked calsky and there is at least
one lunar / star occultation a month for the next year.
Sweet.
I must post the data up here asxa refrence for us.

Dave Lillis · Post by **Dave Lillis** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 8:41 pm

Rare in the sence they are not every week, all the same, it was veery cool seeing the moon creep up on it .
I thought maybe/possiblythe star would dim over a frction of a second or so, nope it was gone in an instant, wow, that was cooool!!