The Occultation of a W=12.0 Star for 0.5s by Asteroid 2006 HE110

Tue eve Mar 17, 2026 at 9:26:01pm

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This bright event should be do-able for our team. I'll be at Cabrillo Observatory with Jordan and we can double-team this in case there's any interesting outcomes. Jordan's still climbing the learning curve but already has a mostly successful recording of the Mu Ceti occultation last night Mar 16. We'll turn it into a "Demo Science" for Astro 8A students. The path goes through Santa Cruz and Aptos, not through Karl, but "shift happens" as we know.

   
   

Results:

Richard Nolthenius

I got a recording. Looked like a miss. Reductions completed; it was a miss. Report sent in to the Hub 3/31/26

         

Kirk Bender

Looks like a miss for 2006 HE110, 2x at Twin Gates tues Mar. 17. No apparent event. The target was near a dimmer star but I used a small size 11 aperture to exclude it. I wasn't far from centerline but rank was not great. PyOTE detectability tool reports an event as short as 0.14s would likely be detectable, predicted max was 0.49s.