The Occultation of the Planet Saturn

June 27, 2024 at 9am in Daylight

The 65%- moon occults Saturn from Santa Cruz in the mid morning sky. Saturn will be decently high, and if the fog has lifted, this should be photograph-able in our 8SE scopes.

For Cabrillo Observatory, here's the D and R times and positions in the sky. It'll be in the SW.

Cabrillo Observatory: 9:05:22am  sun=+36 moon=+30 Az=234 CA=-17N
Cabrillo Observatory: 9:42:33am  sun=+43 moon=+24 Az=241 CA=46N 

Results:

I was too tired and too distracted by stock market hell, to remember. It came/went w/o me. Kirk however, drove up to "the Berm" and got some video. Saturn was so low-contrast that it was essentially invisible against the daylight sky....

The fog was clearing around 8:30 at my house but I was afraid it wouldn't clear in time so I went up Empire Grade to the Berm. I used the C8, aligned on the moon and took video with only a few minutes to spare with my phone through a bracket on the eyepiece. I couldn't see Saturn at the time, not in the eyepiece or on the phone screen or with binoculars.  Seeing was not good. When I got back and looked at the video for the ingress on the bright side, I could barely barely see a small fuzzy blob where Sky Safari showed Saturn would be, and it was moving in the right direction. I can't find Saturn on the video I took of the egress on the dark side. I used Apple's new Final Cut Camera app (free) for the iPhone, recorded in 4K HDR 60fps and a 24mm eyepiece on the C8. I didn't get a youtube- worthy video, but I got something of the event, and more experience with the camera app and the phone holder.
Frame from the video attached with arrow at Saturn, flipped, cropped and added contrast.