[AZ-Observing] Observing Gyptis 444 from the City

So last night, I headed into my front yard with Magpie,  a dozen pages on "The 
Pest's guide to locating the 444 Gyptis Occultation" (Thanks to everybody!) to 
search for an invisible asteroid occulting a nearly invisible star through 
layers of stratus-contrailus illuminated by mercury vapor.  And maybe I saw  
them and maybe I didn't.  There were a few close doubles in the area that could 
have been them but only having the patience to observe a few moments I didn't 
notice the separation widening.  How long would you have to view the pair to 
notice?  Could I even be seeing 10th & 11th magnitude?

So I turned to surfing the light dome's skyline, starting with the open 
non-observatory dome of BOB, and heading W. through the Banks with upside down 
names, further W to be saddened that some structure is now blocking my view of 
the Angel on the copper dome (also telescopeless/ non-observatory), onto trying 
to read the upside down temperature on the upside down Shamrock (maybe 82 or 58 
degrees?) and then surfing back E. I discovered two really grand SN with every 
color light in the spectrum, each taking my entire field of view and placed 
neatly into the grandest Aurora Borealis ever!  So at least the night was not 
an entire loss!  Look for them at about 1 degree altitude and 1 degree azimuth 
(from my front yard near S. Phoenix)  Hey, BTW,  did you know Bob Dylan will be 
at the AZ State Fair on October 21st!  Bob Dylan? AZ State Fair? What's the 
world coming to?

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