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Joel Weatherly
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
10/12/2022
12:32 am

Equipment Details:

Orion 8" f/3.9 Newtonian Astrograph, Celestron AVX, and Canon 5Ds

Post-processing Details:

This image was edited using Affinity Photo.

Image Details:

Uranus was obscured from the sky for over an hour tonight during a lunar occultation of Uranus. I captured this image moments after Uranus reappeared from behind the darkened limb of the waning gibbous Moon. The Moon was overexposed (sacrificing some detail) to reveal the distant planet as a tiny blue dot to the right of our brilliantly bright natural satellite.

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