Grazing lunar occultation
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Grazing lunar occultation
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A grazing lunar occultation is a lunar occultation in which as the occulted star disappears and reappears intermittently on the edge of the Moon. A team of many observers can combine grazes and reconstruct an accurate profile of the limb lunar terrain. Since graze paths rarely pass over established observatories, amateur astronomers use portable observing equipment and travel to sites along the shadow path limits. The goal is to report the UTC of each event as accurately as possible, and GPS dis
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2021-11-17T05:13:22Z
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