This event should look like an 11.5 star, at the low altitude of 14 degrees, but that's still quite bright, especially in a moonless sky. I did a long 16 mile trail run that afternoon and was only getting my clean up and dinner done when I realized this event was going to happen and, surprisingly, the fog looked like it would not invade Scotts Valley until later. I took my dinner pot off the stove, threw my clothes on, grabbed gear, iPhone photo'd the OWd predictions and C2A star chart and drove up to Scotts Valley and did get set up in time. But my guess as to where exactly to position the telescope was poor. The target star rose right over the top of the highest tree along the back of the old Santa's Village field, at altitude 12 degrees. I didn't have time to center the field using eyepiece and instead blind Go-To'd with the Watec. I'd waited while it was behind the tree and verified that the pointing accuracy was very good, with each Messier object in the general area being centered after GoTo. But when the star field finally cleared the tree, I could not ID the star patterns until after the event, finally. I was not centered on the target.
But, I might still have it in the field. I will have to star reductions to see. I used 4x setting, but 2x would have been fine I believe.
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I believe I was the only one to try this event. I didn't advertise it on my web events page. It was a last second go-for after a long Fall Creek run. I set up in the round small parking lot at the base of Polo Ranch Rd next to Hwy 17 in northern Scotts Valley. The target rose above a distant tree with just a couple of minutes to spare before event time.
I cannot ID any star pattern on my event recording that matches another recording taken a few minutes later when I did ID the field not too far away. No stars matched that I could tell. I believe I just did not have the target on-chip at event time. I did not have time to do the usual ID of the field with the wide field eyepiece first, then swap in the Watec. I put in the Watec and did a GoTo, which I believed would be accurate based on (while waiting for it to rise above the trees) successful GoTo's to M11, M4, M22. But, it did not work.
So, I'll chalk this one up to "too tough"; just too low and too hard to be in the path and find a SE horizon lower than 10 degrees.