The Occultation of a W=12.6 Star for 0.6s by Asteroid 1998 SE1

Sat eve Oct 4, 2025 at 10:56:14pm

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This event should be fairly easy - except the rank is poor so it could easily be a miss for us. But on the flip side, it means there's value in all of us trying this one to help pin it down.

 

Alt=36, Az=220 in Aquila but 5 degrees above the right corner star of the "smile" of Capricorn.

 

     

 

Results

Richard Nolthenius

         

 

Kirk Bender

No apparent event. PyOTE detectability tool reported that an event as short as 0.240s would be detectable, max predicted was 0.63s.

 

Karl von Ahnen

reports a miss