This event is bright, and convenient from home, at 44 deg altitude in the East. Duration=0.4s.
Well, I recorded, but I doubt I was on target. Didn't allow enough time for trouble. My first 2-star align, I'm sure I was on the stars I said, but it said "align failed". so I powered down and back up, starting fresh, used Procyon and Aldebaren, and got 'success'. But I could not recognize the field. Getting late, so I swapped in the Watec and still couldn't recognize the field. I recorded anyway. Afterwards, I told it to go to M35 and I saw nothing in the eyepiece or nearby. But then I told it to goto M42 and it put it deadcenter. After the 'align failed', I tried to just go back and pick two more stars, but it wanted me to do custom site, which I didn't have time to monkey with so I just powered off and then back on. That resulted in 'align success', but... probably too late.
No data.
I don't see an event for 1999 AN9, 2x from home. I tried a static target aperture, no apparent event, then again a nest of static apertures of varying mask sizes, still no event. Max predicted duration was .42 sec, 6.2 mag drop of the target, but OW cloud said a nearby star would cause a drop of only 2.8 mag. Maybe I should have used 4x instead of 2x, the target was dim but it was consistently visible on the monitor, and using the detectability tool, pyote said: An event of duration 0.270 seconds with magDrop: 2.8 is likely detectable. So looks like a miss, even though prediction was rank 99, and probability at my location 88%.
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