This is a very low rank but long occultation by a TNO which would be valuable to get a timing of, but odds of a hit are only about 5%. I wrote this page after the event... Time uncertainty is 1-sigma = 135 seconds, or 2min 15s . That's a lot. I will be careful to report only the length of the taping.
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Kirk Bender tried to get to the field but could not ID the stars from the supplied RECONN chart, which looks upside down from the orientation in our scopes. No data taped. Uncertain if Karl tried it but probably not.
Richard Nolthenius
I swung the 8SE scope over to this target 2 minutes after the prior event (1999SS4) had finished taping. I don't know if I was on target, but a review of the video will show if I did. I will do a 'finder' image and match up with the newly made LCD chart above.