This is a bright occultation, but very short. Must use 1x. High up in the west in Gemini. The path just skims the coast of northern SC county and enters land again near Moss Landing. Center line is just north of Wilder Ranch but all of Wilder Ranch is in the nominal path. Mag drop is 8.4, so it should disappear completely.
Kirk Bender and I both got recordings. Kirk from home
I only had time to glance very quickly at the OWc map as I realized skies made this possible after all, and wish I'd looked closer to see the path centerline was on the west entrance to Wilder, not the east entrance. I recorded this from the bike path/east side entrance to Wilder Ranch under clear skies. At setting 1x and the star quite easy to see. I did not see an event, but I've noticed in the past that an event as short as 0.2s or less could be missed live by eye/brain yet show up on the PyMovie light curve, so I will await reductions before judging.
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Looks like a miss for 2000 RL32, Feb. 8 at home, 1x. There is a one point drop near predicted, but not to zero and there are similar single point drops scattered throughout.
PyOTE detectability tool reports an event as short as 0.60s would likely be detectable, max predicted was 0.24s.
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