The Occultation of a 13.4 Star by 1999RF201

July 15, 2024 at 12:17am

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This is another narrow path, mediocre rank faint star, but the duration is 1.1s which makes it do-able if lucky. Fog is a threat as I make this page 90 min before the event. Path almost identical to the 1999MY12 event of 1 hour ago!

     

 

Results:

Richard Nolthenius

I drove back up to the Pineridge neighborhood and had plenty of time, too much time, and when I then set up the sky was so bright by moonlight that I could not ID the field. And it drifted, and pointing was poor and hard to verify. I never got onto the target, and the event time came and went. No tape, no data. My fumble!

Kirk Bender

Did not try this; did not have charts and instead of staying at "the Berm", drove home. No one else tried this one.

Karl von Ahnen

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