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Steven Bellavia
Southold, NY
12/11/2023
12:01 am

Equipment Details:

Homemade 8-inch, f.4 Newtonian Reflector
ZWO ASI 585MC camera
Celestron CGX-L Equatorial Mount

Post-processing Details:

single, 30-second image

Image Details:

Some of the world got to see an occultation of Betelgeuse by asteroid 319 Leona
For my location it was a near-occultation
I had to wait quite a while for the very small and faint Leona, at magnitude 14.5 (about the same as dwarf-planet Pluto) to come out of the bright glare of Betelgeuse, the 11th brightest star in the sky

To see a time lapse, it is part of my collections at : https://www.astrobin.com/cxoi3j/

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