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On 29 March, Saturn perfectly lined up with Earth’s moon, giving an impression of touching each other’s surface. Astrophotographer Grant Petersen took perfect advantage of this relatively common yet easy-to-miss event and managed to capture this conjunction using a Samsung Galaxy S8 mounted to a telescope. The picture was clicked from Johannesburg, South Africa. [caption id=“attachment_6528151” align=“alignnone” width=“1024”]  Saturn ’touching’ the moon. Image: Grant Petersen/Twitter[/caption] Petersen shared this image on Twitter, which soon went viral.
That was frickin spectacular. This mornings #Moon #Saturn #Occultation at ingress from #Johannesburg captured with a #GalaxyS8 7mm eyepiece 2 x Barlow and 8" Sky-watcher dobsonian telescope. 5 sec vid run through PIPP and stacked with registax #Smartphone #astrophotography pic.twitter.com/H8sSirrS2Z
— Grant Petersen (@GP_O11) March 29, 2019
Some pics of the #Moon and #Saturn occultation earlier this morning #Smartphone #astrophotography pic.twitter.com/AZuqAtvbOf
— Grant Petersen (@GP_O11) March 29, 2019
He also shared a few short stacked image videos of the images who took.
The rings of #Saturn and the #Moon at ingress #Occultation pic.twitter.com/AeOeGuioQ8
— Grant Petersen (@GP_O11) March 29, 2019
Petersen revealed that the image is actually a combination of several photos, and it shows Saturn just before it slipped behind the moon before dawn. As Saturn edged toward the moon, Petersen recorded it in 60-frame-per-second video. Then after the conjunction, he processed the images using a technique called stacking to merge several of the video frames into a brighter, clearer picture, a Business Insider report reveals.
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