This is a bright event and lasts a good long time. Trouble is, it is only 16 deg up in the SE, The path is steeply north south, covering Aptos, Karl, Hwy 17 on the western side of the path. At 16 degrees altitude, the 11.6 star will still be easy if the fog is low, but you won't have much time to ID the target area and get on it, as it rises above the local trees.
Alt=16, Az=139 in Sagittarius, just 3 degrees left of Nunki
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I didn't hear from Kirk or Karl earlier in the day after I posted the planning page and thought they were going to skip it, and that I was likely to as well; favoring sleep so I could get serious about my grading of the semester early in the morning. Fog, surprisingly, stayed away. It was clear throughout the county.
I hadn't heard from Karl, and if he wasn't going to try it or couldn't try it because of horizon problems, then I wouldn't either. I didn't even know if the wedding chapel driveway had a low enough horizon. At home I was just a little outside the 1-sigma limit, and I realized that that azimuth is my best, lowest horizon, and when I saw after working on 1998GY3 for the previous hour, that Karl had put down a marker, I thought I should try it after all. 1998GY3 turned out, against my expectation, to be a positive and took enough time and attention to forestall my sleep anyway. I hurried to set up outside my carport and indeed could see Nunki and that it would work. I got a recording at 4x with the star easily visible. It looked like a miss.
And the reductions show a miss. Clear enough I may not have run it through PyOTE.
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Observed from home at 32x, rushed and not getting the setting down to a lower value. But still sees a strong positive in the likely saturated image. Unreduced at this moment.
(4433) Goldstone, from Water Truck Turn, Clear, no breeze, Couldn’t ID field until 15 sec before event. Recorded at 32X, which I had been using to locate stars. Probably useless. Processed: clear, strong event.
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