This is bright(ish) star with a long 1.0s duration, at high altitude but not too high, and parallels Highland Way/Summit. Karl's place is very close to the centerline. We can get good coverage of the path by leaving Karl at home, then setting up at Radonich Ranch and nearby.
Looks like the social night won't work; hopefully Karl can sneak out after his dinner w/ friends at home, and get this. I'll instead focus on the brighter nearby event at 8:30pm. Tons of work still to do at home anyway.
Alt=66, Az=202 about 8 degrees to the upper right of Regulus
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It was clear and I needed to get away from the computer for a couple of hours; and Kirk joined me, driving up Hwy 17 to set up a couple of sites on either side of Karl's track. Karl observed from home, but the sparse star field made it tough to ID the star patterns, and he did not that solved in time. I set Kirk up on Laurel Drive, about a half mile from it's intersection with Hwy 17. I drove further north, to the "Wedding Chapel" entrance gate. We both got recordings.
Richard Nolthenius
I set up at the gate to the "Wedding Chapel" on Hwy 17 near Glenwood drive. I used 4x. Clear, as far as I could visually tell. I disconnected the monitor and watched the event on the flip out screen, but could not tell if there was any event.
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Set up on Laurel Drive, at a quiet spot with a clear view of Leo.
I didn't get a clear event for 1032 T-2, 1x from Laurel road. Zooming in, there is a rough dip near predicted time of 5:52:16, but if I have pyote look for an event, it finds a 0.18 sec event at 5:52:53, 37 sec after predicted. However, the tracking star dips at this time too. I did do smoothing but target still roughly dipped.
If I trim to 15 sec before and after predicted, it finds an event at at 5:52:05, 11 sec before predicted, with low 0.5 sigma NIE.
If I trim further to 5 sec around predicted time, it finds a dip at 05:52:16.5499, but very short at 0.0834 sec with a low 1.2 sigma NIE test. So looks like just noise and a miss unless I trim very selectively, and unless you have a positive I can corroborate with.
I wasn't far from centerline and predicted max was almost a second so prediction could have been off.
Bernard Huynh
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