[AZ-Observing] Re: Asteroid occultation Friday night


>
> There is an occultation of a 10.6 mag star Friday night.  The path of the
> shadow appears to pass directly over Tucson.  If I can get home from work
> early enough, I might just take a shot at it.  The more southeastern
suburbs
> of Peoria appear to have a better chance though.


Ohhhh, a project I can do in the backyard!  Did some research, and found
that the star is TYC0006-00219-1
at 00 29 21.5, +04 14 14.04 in Pisces.  The star is mag. 11.6, and the
asteroid, (444) Gyptis is 10.6.  May be a bit anti-climatic given the
asteriod is brighter than the star, but I'm opening the roof anyhow.  The
most current times for the actual occultation are between 8:57:27 and
8:57:54.  I think that the path map I saw was a bit more current than Joe's,
and it shows a westward shift that includes the Phx area.

And don't forget that mag 3.3 Theta Oph is getting covered by the moon
tonight around 8:21.

I may not recover for weeks after this much excitement!! :-P

Thanks to Joe for bringing it up......

Thad




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