This event is problematic. It's only 12 minutes after the Weywot event, which means we must move the scope over quickly get it on target. It's only about 17 degrees away from the Weywot event, so that may be do-able without having to remove the Watec camera. But the other problem is that we don't really know the magnitude of the star. 13.0 is the combined asteroid/star. But it's listed as V=15 in WikiSky, says Kirk. It might yet be do-able if it's red enough, but it doesn't show on my map except as an "x". I'd recomment still keeping high integration as it's likely to be difficult to see. The other reason to keep high integration is that the drop in magnitude is only 0.5 from the nominal 13.0 magnitude. The star is listed on OW as 14.2 which might be do-able if we're lucky.
The coordinates given are for the 10.3 star very close to the target.
Note that a globular cluster N6440 is nearby, at magnitude 9.3. It might be the easiest way to get close, but given the tight time, maybe go straight to the 10.3 star instead.
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Results:
Kirk got on target and observed a miss; surprising given the 92% odds of a "hit". I wasn't careful enough about properly 2-star aligning to begin with, and did not get close enough to the target to ID any star patterns. I video'd but the wrong field. No data.