This event will be difficult. 14.2 magnitude requires long integration. Drop=3.1 magnitudes. This will be hindered by the moon only 28 degrees away, but at least the moon will be lower in the sky (moon alt=34) and perhaps hidden behind trees if you're lucky. 16x might reveal this star. 32x will allow only 3 occultation points max, inside the event. The path only gets the coastal areas of Santa Cru, until Watsonville. Nominal rank is good, but RUWE is large at 3.95 so the path is rather uncertain.
Alt=51, Az=239 in Taurus, 6 degrees below Aldebaren. Use Aldebaren as an align star!
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Kirk Bender and I both got recordings of this one, under clear skies.
I integrated at 16x, observed from near the carport at home. The predicted drop of 3.1 should have taken it to mag=17.3, essentially invisible. At 16x, that's 3 integrations per second or 7 integrations for the max = 2.2 seconds of an occultation.
No evidence of an occultation. Cannot rule out a grazing short sub-single integration event, but it looks pretty confidently like a miss, unless the event was quite early or late and in a noisier part of the light curve. I filed it as a miss.
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Got a miss or no event detection.