Valentine's Day. Yeah, well, why not spend it gathering science on this asteroid? Hedda is your date night. The asteroid appears to be at its stationary point, and so moving very slowly across the stars. The event central duration is 38 seconds, which will permit very high accuracy in tracing its outline. The path goes north-south through Soquel and includes all of the cities of Monterey Bay and the South Bay north of us.
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Results:
I drove to Rodeo Gulch on top, thick cirrus and a near full moon 36 degrees away told me it was hopeless, and 20 min before the event I drove back home, arriving there 4 minutes before the event, only to look up and see a hole in the clouds over the target area. Might have permitted a recording, but no time obviously. Kirk recorded from upper UCSC but clouds too thick at 4x to detect the target star above the 'no star' aperture level. Karl got clouded out at home. Haven't heard how Derek or Ted Swift did, but not optimistic about Derek as that cloud band was over us. It might have cleared for Ted in Davis, but he was outside the nominal path.
RN: clouded out
Karl: Clouded out
Kirk: Clouded out