This is a good event, quite do-able if skies are clear. The on-shore flow and fog, however, is returning, so it might be a bit more challenging. RUWE=1.05, which is safe. The centerline runs across the UCSC Arboretum. Kirk, me, and Bernard are all inside the path. Aptos is on the southern limit. The northern limit is a few miles south of Karl. Escaping the typical fog upper level may not be possible. I'll wait to see how the weather develops before finishing the planning page
I will drive up to Wilder Ranch for both events, if clear. There's a second event 40 minutes later. of an 11.1 starr
Alt=52, Az=271 in Auriga
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I was the only one to get a recording, due to my being very late in notifying everyone - fooled by clearing skies when I was napping!
I rushed up to Wilder Ranch east entrance to get this, but in my rush, somehow neglected to photograph the charts off this page which I did successfully make and could swear I uploaded. But, no. The page did not show up on the web and I did not push hard enough on my iPhone to get these photo'd. I had to phone Kirk 15 minutes before the event on-site to have him search for the asteroid in OWc and find the coordinates and give them to me. I did a GoTo and could only hope the star field was right. I wish I'd had enough time to confidently try a GoTo nearby cluster M37 and see what offset there might be, and then I could apply that. I did not.
I ID'd the field on PyMovie 3 weeks later... and could see that the target was off the chip, to the right. I have no data.