This event is on a narrow path but nominally high rank. It is very short; only 0.2s max, so I'd recommend using 1x setting for Watec's. In my experience, especially with the dark clean clear sky of this night, 1x is completely do-able.
I've set out an icon at the Happy Valley elementary school up Branciforte creek. Bernard will try from home, just below the predicted southern limit, Kirk from up Empire Grade. Karl is too far north to have much chance.
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I drove to the entrance to Henry Cowell State Park and set up. The target was nicely placed in the east in Leo. I did a GoTo, and could ID the star field right away in the eyepiece. I verified my two charts were properly oriented (eyepiece chart flipped left/right, scaled about right). But in the Watec field, I could not ID anything that I was seeing as being part of what I was looking at. I had plenty of time, but could not make sense of what I was seeing regardless of using high or low integration to help. Eventually I just gave up. No recording, no pictures. No explanation made any sense, except perhaps the visual brightness of enough key stars was so different in reality vs chart, that my brain could not ID anything.
A total fumble.
I don't see an event for 2001 SU69, 1x at the Bonny Doon Eco Reserve. Miss or too short to detect. Target was faint at 1x and not much above background. I was not far from the centerline and rank was ok, prediction might have been off. Predicted max was only 0.24 sec, but I could have used 2x and got 7 integrations max for an event, if there was an event. PyOTE detectability tool reported an event as short as 0.2s would likely be detectable.