This event is faint, but lasts a decent 5s and therefore we can use longer integrations to verify the event and still get enough points to succeed. The rank=90 and the odds for us in the nearby Empire Grade area are 50% for a hit. The altitude is 36 degrees in the east, in Pegasus, and Az=107. Tropical clouds threaten, and fog, but we're hopeful...
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We got lucky - Low clouds stayed low, and high clouds avoided western Pegasus, and the uncertain shadow managed to hit all 3 observers; me, Kirk, and Yanzhi in SiValley.
I set up at upper UCSC meadow on the east side of Empire Grade. Good conditions, it went well. 16x, sharpness=4, Gain=41, Gamma=1 as usual. I got a 4.27s long event at the proper depth. The 15.1 star was very dimly visible on most frames during the occultation.
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Observed from "The Berm" on Empire Grade, also got a 4.7s event under good conditions.
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