Tough to be sleep deprived, but the star is reasonably bright, we're inside the path, and the fog should stay off shore tonight. We'll leave the gear in the car and get it from my driveway, is my plan, and then immediately back to sleep. Odds of a hit are 41% from Santa Cruz and Karl in the SC Mtns.
The alt=21 at Az=129, in the SE. Might be best to try from the foot of the driveway but I will check when it gets dark if I have a 21 degree horizon from my carport.
12.7 mag for up to 1.2s and a full drop to invisibility.
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Clear skies remained through the early hours.
I got a successful recording using my carport parked RAV4 as observing site! It happened to get a low horizon at the right azimuth. Had to do a narrow 2-star align, using Alpha Pegasi and Enif, both stars in the same constellation - very dangerous usually. But, it did place the target inside the eyepiece on go-to. 59% chance I'd get a miss on this low rank event, and that's what I got...
The target star is in the red box. The prime reference star is in the yellow box just above it. The target star is shown in its aperture below. |
Target star light curve in green. Up to a 1.2 second event predicted, but odds of a "hit" were only 41% |
The reference star very close to the target - behaves normally. Doesn't look like any reason to distrust the target star's light curve due to any interference possibilities. |
The fainter target star looks noisier, but still shows no evidence of an occultation, which would have dropped the curve to near zero. |
Now in PyOTE, frames consolidated into single point integrations. At the occultation predicted time, no evidence of an occultation. |
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Same, zoomed in. Looks like a "miss". A swing and a miss! |
