This is a bright event and northern limit through PineRidge, Felton, Scotts Valley. Karl is north of the 1-sigma zone. Cabrillo Observatory near centerline, as is home in Santa Cruz.
Alt=70, Az=194 in Taurus. Just west of due south.
Should be able to get this w/o swapping in the diagonal and 0.5x reducer. I am charting this way
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I tried this from home, but after all the work at the Observatory where I tried 1999WF, and trying to get stuff done with Jordan and the 12" and Will, I didn't get home till just 20 min before the event. I tried to get on-target but worried the 70 degree altitude would be a problem. I did not recognize any of the star patterns in either the eyepiece, or once I put in the Watec. Puzzled, because afterwards as a test, I sent it to M42 Orion Nebula, and it put it right into the center of the Watec field. Either the stars were very out of normal brightness, or some cloudiness unnoticed affected the patterns, or pointing near zenith was bad while elsewhere was OK... or something else. I got no data
I got 2 positives for Weiss Rose on Dec 7. On the 8SE and Watec, 1.1178 sec at 1x from Swanton Blvd. by the Natural Bridges entrance. On the 80mm and Astrid, 1.4000 sec at 5fps (12x) from home. This is the first time I got positives from two stations on the same event, one using the Watec on the 8SE, and one with Astrid unattended prepoint on the 80mm f5 Orion short tube refractor. I used a 0.5x reducer on the Astrid so effectively f2.5. The duration of the event from PyOTE is longer on the Astrid chord, but the containment intervals from the Astrid recording are about 10 times that of the 8SE so the durations could actually have been close. That doesn't mean the Astrid camera is that much worse than the Watec. From previous tests I found the Astrid is only slightly less sensitive. However, the scope I used for the Astrid is only 3 inches aperture compared to 8 inches for the Watec.
Station 1: Watec and 8SE, Swanton Blvd
NIE sigma distance 12.1
magDrop report: percentDrop: 87.7 magDrop: 2.274 +/- 0.946 (0.95 ci)
DNR: 1.51
D time: [07:12:50.3558]
D: 0.6800 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0171} seconds
D: 0.9500 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0629} seconds
D: 0.9973 containment intervals: {+/- 0.1507} seconds
R time: [07:12:51.4736]
R: 0.6800 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0171} seconds
R: 0.9500 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0629} seconds
R: 0.9973 containment intervals: {+/- 0.1507} seconds
Duration (R - D): 1.1178 seconds
Duration: 0.6800 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0281} seconds
Duration: 0.9500 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0804} seconds
Duration: 0.9973 containment intervals: {+/- 0.1732} seconds
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Station 2: Astrid and 80mm, at home
NIE sigma distance 3.3
magDrop report: percentDrop: 75.0 magDrop: 1.506 +/- 1.035 (0.95 ci)
DNR: 2.03
D time: [07:12:50.1520]
D: 0.6800 containment intervals: {+/- 0.1188} seconds
D: 0.9500 containment intervals: {+/- 0.4121} seconds
D: 0.9973 containment intervals: {+/- 1.0319} seconds
R time: [07:12:51.5520]
R: 0.6800 containment intervals: {+/- 0.1188} seconds
R: 0.9500 containment intervals: {+/- 0.4121} seconds
R: 0.9973 containment intervals: {+/- 1.0319} seconds
Duration (R - D): 1.4000 seconds
Duration: 0.6800 containment intervals: {+/- 0.2001} seconds
Duration: 0.9500 containment intervals: {+/- 0.5889} seconds
Duration: 0.9973 containment intervals: {+/- 1.2864} seconds
Got a successful recording