This is a bright, long event with good rank (which I hope we can trust). It is near the 9.2 mag Globular Cluster NGC 6440 which might be a sure-fire way to point to something you know you can ID. 9.2 mag is bright and will show up easily as a non-stellar object in our Watec field.
Alt=20, Az=220 in Sagittarius, 10 deg to the right of the tippy top of the Teapot. It's also about 15 degrees upper left of Comet SWAN
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Kirk and Bernard carpooled with me in the van. We first went to the Fremont Peak StarBQ celebration at Fremont Peak Observatory, met Rob whom I need to confer with about doing star parties and getting time on the 30" FPO Scope. And, met Yanzhe Liu who is gifting me a Meade f/6.3 OTA. Thank you! Then, we hurried back off the mountain, picking sites to get the Ulrike Occultation and also the Ilmari event which was 45 minutes later, from the same sites.
I was so busy this mornig and early afternoon getting Plan A, B, C, and D revised or abandoned, that I forgot to actually photograph the charts for Ulrike for myself. I did post them on the web, but since I could not access the web from my site (SOS only on T-Mobile), and I ran out of time to try and go back to Kirk's station and get the charts from him, that I did not have charts and could not get on-target. No data from me
Got data, from a site 3 miles north of me, and 1.5 miles south of Bernard. I got at 1.3289s event for Ulrike on Hwy 25, Oct 12, at 1x.
There was only one other star bright enough for tracking. There's a tall vertical spike at the beginning of the D but not at the R, and there are similar spikes throughout the curve so it's probably noise.
magDrop report: percentDrop: 96.4 magDrop: 3.617 +/- 0.874 (0.95 ci)
DNR: 2.03
D time: [03:22:41.7146]
D: 0.6800 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0057} seconds
D: 0.9500 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0177} seconds
D: 0.9973 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0479} seconds
R time: [03:22:43.0435]
R: 0.6800 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0057} seconds
R: 0.9500 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0177} seconds
R: 0.9973 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0479} seconds
Duration (R - D): 1.3289 seconds
Duration: 0.6800 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0087} seconds
Duration: 0.9500 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0225} seconds
Duration: 0.9973 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0503} seconds
Got data on both occultations, and a solid positive on Ulrike of about 1s or maybe a bit less.