This is a very red star, benefits our Watec cameras. The path essentially falls on top of Summit Rd, and Karl. The duration is only 0.2s, so it will require 2x setting to get enough points to be detectable. 0.2s = 10 fields for my PAL camera. So at 2x that would be 5 points inside the occultation, which should be detectable OK. The field is in Ophiuchus in the SE.
Alt=28, Az=154 in Ophiuchus, 12 degrees left of Antares
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Kirk Bender's planned site: Glenwood Drive / Clark Drive just off Hwy 17. not far past the "Wedding Chapel" on Hwy 17.
My site: at the lot below the Red cafe at "Red Realty" site.
I got a recording at 2x from the dirt lot below the old Red Cafe, in clear calm conditions. Visually it looked like a miss, but I've not reduced it yet.
Reduced on July 18. I had to trim out a false positive of 4 consecutive low points but none of which got close to zero, 38 sec later than the event. I searched for an event of length 3 to 11 points. 11 points is 0.44s long, which is more than double the predicted duration. This event was supposed to go to zero, and indeed it did on the found event, just a few tenth's of a second after my estimate of the predicted event time of 6:54:58.7 UT. The estimated event time at my site was gotten by moving a telescope icon on the OWc page at my track distance, laterally until I could see the integer second on the predicted time change to the next integer UT second. Assuming that Hristo rounds rather than truncates to get the integer second, then the UT second should move to the next second at 6:54:58.500, which was east (earlier) than at my site.
94% light loss, and NIE test was 2.9 sigma, so it seems real.
NIE test: 2.9 sigma
magDrop report: percentDrop: 93.9 magDrop: 3.044 +/- 1.982 (0.95 ci)
DNR: 1.86
D time: [06:54:59.0615]
D: 0.6800 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0133} seconds
D: 0.9500 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0425} seconds
D: 0.9973 containment intervals: {+/- 0.1069} seconds
R time: [06:54:59.2426]
R: 0.6800 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0133} seconds
R: 0.9500 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0425} seconds
R: 0.9973 containment intervals: {+/- 0.1069} seconds
Duration (R - D): 0.1811 seconds
Duration: 0.6800 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0205} seconds
Duration: 0.9500 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0533} seconds
Duration: 0.9973 containment intervals: {+/- 0.1144} seconds
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Looks like a miss or undetectable for 1996 TQ54, 2x at Glenwood dr. off hwy 17 June 4. Target was faint at 2x, but I didn't want to integrate longer because it was predicted to be short. There is a 2 point drop at 6:54:57, 2 sec earlier than the predicted 6:54:59, but there are other single and douple point drops thoughout. If asked to find an event, PyOTE finds a .2s event much later at 6:55:15 with a no confidence -0.0 sigma. If I trim near predicted time, it says no event found. PyOTE detectability tool reports an event as short as 0.340s would likely be detectable, 0.2s was max predicted. A miss or too short to be detected.
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Looked like a miss but not reduced yet.
