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Helio C. Vital
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
10/02/2020

Equipment Details:

I used my Nikon CoolPix P900 camera to get this around 01:26 (UTC-3h) on Oct. 03rd with no attachment to a telescope.

Image Details:

By very little the close encounter failed to become a grazing occultation. So that only 4 arcminutes separated Mars from the lunar limb.