There was a Lunar Saturn occultation, where the Moon crosses in front of Saturn. I took an impromtu trip to Joshua Tree National Park. Of course the occultation was at 4am, so I get to the hotel and make a plan to use my intervalometer - basically a tool to automatically take pictures at some interval. I decided to have it take a picture once per second for a few minutes before and up to the occultation, then I'd dump my memory card to my laptop over the hour of the occultation, then I'd start the intervalometer a few minutes early and go for a few minutes past Saturn reappearing.
I went out around 10pm and found a spot to pull over that could see well in the correct direction for the occultation. I setup and did a test run. Just taking a bunch of random pictures to make sure it was actually a good spot. It was hard to take a two-minute exposure without headlights driving by lighting up my foreground. When I came back at 4am, it was totally dead - not even a guard checking my pass.
I guess the seeing just wasn't fantastic because this is as focused as I could get it. The Moon is a little over exposed and Saturn is a little under exposed because I needed a balance that would mostly show both with their relative brightness differences. And an hour later at 5am for Saturn re-appearing from behind the Moon, the Moon was just so low on the horizon that it looks a different color and Saturn looks even blurrier.
