The Occultation of a 15.0 Star by Arabis (13.3 fades to 13.6)

Nov 30, 2022 at 12:43:41am

 

This event passes through Santa Cruz, with decent odds. It's overhead, though, 83 degrees altitude and higher before the event. Will require pushing the tube FAR to the upper end of it's dovetail travel, and use a diagonal and 0.5x reducer to try this. Only a 0.3 mag drop for up to 2.3 seconds. This one will be very tough and will also require some integration to detect such a shallow drop. Perhaps 8x or even 16x