This event is rather faint, and short. Skies look only partly clear. But I'll add this just in case it looks worth trying when 8pm rolls around.
Alt=28, Az=108 in Virgo
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I made this event a "3-fer". I'd done a good gym session of stretching and roller work and hip strengthening, and core with some swimming. In the past, this has set me up for a good long trail run w/o hip pain, and I wanted to take this Saturday (after less fun computer troubles resolutions), to get to Fall Creek for a sunset, twilight run. Then photograph the sky in case Comet MAPS survived this afternoon's close passage by the sun and perhaps blew a good tail into the evening sky - and get this asteroid event.
I was able to dial in 2x and see the target OK, and recorded from the dirt road opposite the Mt Hermon shopping center in Felton. It's actually a really great spot, doesn't have a gate that I see could be closed, and has great horizons in all directions. I recorded at 2x.
It was a miss, and rather tough at 2x. 4x would have been better in hindsight, but conditions looked good enough to go 2x, barely. That would be 8 points inside a 0.3s event, and that clearly didn't happen. There was a dip 8 seconds earlier, but it lines up with a similar drop in the ref star, and is very noisy. Possible wisp of cirrus?
long 122 04 13.97
lat 37 03 12.21
elev 88m
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Set up at Sky Park in Scotts Valley, but remembered the time of the event with minutes and seconds in reverse order, and so was too late to record and got no data.