The Occultation of a 14.8 star by the asteroid Paris

July 4, 2022 at 1:55:46am

 

This is obviously a tough event, but the one saving grace is that it's high in a dark sky, and lasts 9 seconds. That will allow long integration that might pull it out. Turns out this is a Jupiter Trojan asteroid, and that's one reason it lasts so long as 9 seconds.

 

     

 

Results:

I had a clear path to the star from my carport RAV4. It was an excellent clean dark night and so I put on the dew (and light) shield. But on reduction, found I'd recorded a very similar but not correct field. I got nothing.

 

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