This event is decent rank, with 90% odds for RN's site and around 80% for Kirk's site on Molera Rd south of Moss Landing. It's rising in Gemini at 14 degrees altitude so it'll probably look dimmer than 11.7 and more scintillation, but still should be pretty easy to get good data.
GoogleMaps says 29 minutes from Cabrillo to my site near Pezzini Farms, shorter for getting to Kirk's site on the access rd to Salinas River State Beach.
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I drove Kirk and myself down to the Salinas River State Beach (Kirk's station) and then on a few miles more to just past Pezzeti Farms for my own, and brought Astro 3 student Anthony too, who was curious about the process. Kirk analyzed his data already, and has a miss. He reported it on Dec 1 to IOTA. I likely had a miss, but not analyzed yet. Perhaps a short event.
Set up next to the old rail tracks just east of Pezzini Farms in the strawberry fields. Nominal odds of 90% for a hit, but... a miss. I had Anthony from Astro 3-1 for company and a bit of help.
A thin cirrus cloud passed through the scene, it seems, before the event, but was mostly gone by the time the event happened. |
Zoomed in on the predicted moment of the occultation. No hint of an event. A miss. |
I would like to run it through again, using "appsum" in PyOTE, to be sure it was a miss. Not done yet. Report sent in already, though, to IOTA of a "miss".
Set up just off the road to Salinas River State Beach and Molina Rd. Watec at 4x setting. Temperature in the high 40's we estimate.
PyMovie screen capture. |
Predicted event time is at the vertical bar. |
