[AZ-Observing] Re: Antares Occultation
- From: "Stanley A. Gorodenski" <stan_gorodenski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 12:02:19 -0800
Unfortunately, I was clouded out for the occultation. It appeared the
cloud cover would not clear up for the reappearance and so I went back
to bed. You desert floor dwellers are lucky to be living in the desert
this time.
Stan
Tom Polakis wrote:
>Just watched the disappearance. It was nice to have the eyeball to the
>eyepiece again. Our non-WWV approach gave a time of disappearance of
>roughly 3:18.04.563-ish MST, or thereabouts. The disappearance didn't seem
>to take any longer than a tenth of a second, so I'd call it instantaneous.
>It did appear to "rest on the limb" for few seconds. We were not able to
>see the companion, which must have hung out there for several seconds after
>the primary star disappeared.
>
>Now, off to catch a half hour nap before our reappearance at the scopes.
>
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