This event hugs Santa Cruz and the bay. Doesn't quite make it to Scotts Valley or Aptos. It's faint, and short at only 0.4s. Marginal, but clear skies and a weekend so I'll try it. I have to travel as it's a probable miss from home. I will try from Natural Bridges, deeper into the path.
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The target was faint, and while recording I was chiding myself for even taking the trouble to drive down to Natural Bridges Drive for this extremely difficult short event. However, PyOTE actually did find a 0.32s event right at the predicted event time, at 8x setting. Conditions were very good. Dark, no moon, looking out over the ocean darkness. I could only occassionally see the target on the screen. I disconnected the monitor to get every tiny bit of S/N possible. Looks like it worked. However, the NIE separation in distributions was only 0.4 sigma. But it was precisely at the predicted time. I will note this in my report, which will claim a positive, despite the low NIE confidence.
I set up between two close together palm trees seen in the median strip. And 55 ft north of a large leaning pine tree, at the south end of a rather large gap in trees along that fenceline. This was all perhaps a few hundred feet further north than I usually use for set up on Natural Bridges Drive.
PyOTE detected an event, but so short that the NIE test is poor. I'll report the data and categorize it as "unsure" on the IOTA form.
magDrop report: percentDrop: 96.8 magDrop: 3.734 too much noise; cannot calculate error bars
DNR: 2.40
D time: [04:35:59.9957]
D: 0.6800 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0600} seconds
D: 0.9500 containment intervals: {+/- 0.1836} seconds
D: 0.9973 containment intervals: {+/- 0.4363} seconds
R time: [04:36:00.3157]
R: 0.6800 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0600} seconds
R: 0.9500 containment intervals: {+/- 0.1836} seconds
R: 0.9973 containment intervals: {+/- 0.4363} seconds
Duration (R - D): 0.3200 seconds
Duration: 0.6800 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0925} seconds
Duration: 0.9500 containment intervals: {+/- 0.2330} seconds
Duration: 0.9973 containment intervals: {+/- 0.4869} seconds
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