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PLANET SATURN APPEARS BEHIND MOON AFTER OCCULTATION

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Saturday morning February 2nd, 2019, there was a lunar occultation of Saturn. This means, the Moon was passing in front of the ringed planet.
The occultation was visible from parts of Africa and Europe only because in Asia it happened in daytime and Saturn was therefor not visible.
In 2019 there will be many occultations of Saturn but this is the only one that could be seen from parts of Europe and in Switzerland it was at dawn , with the Moon only 9 degrees low above the southeastern horizon.
http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/planets/saturn.jpg
To make it more complicated there were quite a lot of clouds over Switzerland after winter storms and the Alps and northern Italy... but the short-term weather forecast service 'Cosmo' showed a possible no-cloud zone in my region in central Valais in SW Switzerland for the time of end of the occultation, when Saturn was going to re-appear behind the Moon ( around 07h32 local time ) The Moon was a thin crescent, just 2 days before New Moon.
I drove from Vétroz up to Mayens-de-Conthey, in snow-covered road. 15 minutes before the re-appearance of Saturn the Moon was still hidden behind clouds. But just a few minutes before it cleared .
Filmed in FHD 1080p with a Canon EOS 80D and Canon EF lens 400mm f/5.6 L and Kenko 2x converter and in-camera crop-zoom to obtain telescopic power, on a Berlebach tripod. Edited and reduced to HD720p.

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