This event looks to be a "sure thing" from home and from Bonny Doon and the Santa Cruz Mountains for Karl. Hope the fog stays away. The altitude is 30 degrees. Lasts up to 6.8 seconds
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Results
Kirk and I both got good data on this one. He set up a bit north of the bike trail crossing at the Upper UCSC meadow, and I set up about a mile below the fire station at Felton-Empire, not wanting to dare this asteroid to slip by me like the last one did, and not wanting to get too close to the other two tracks - outside of Chicago, and north of New York City.
Nolthenius Data
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PyMovie light curves for target, tracker, and sky. Green is the target |
A 5.7 second occultation; PyMovie target light curve |
Then ran the .csv file through PyOTE. I used the 2x setting to get maximum time resolution. Skies were clean and the moon was not as bright as full moon 2 days earlier. |
False Positive error histogram. Solid! |
PyOTE timings reductions |
Kirk Bender
Kirk set up off Empire Grade a few hundred yards above the upper UCSC Meadow bike path crossing. Got very good data, at 4x setting. He was deeper into the path shadow and had a 6.74 sec event, significantly longer than my 5.67 sec event, and near the expected maximum of 6.8 seconds.
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