[AZ-Observing] Re: Anybody See Saturn Occultation?
- From: "Frank Kraljic" <FJKraljic@xxxxxxx>
- To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 08:54:56 -0700
I also attempted to observe the occultation, but failed to distinguish any
10th magnitude star near the planet with the exception of Thethys and Dione
as Tom mentioned. Seeing hovered about 225x, and occasionally sharp at 404x
for only brief seconds. The times I observed were at 4:40, and sporadically
between 5:00 and 6:00am. In between one observing run, I searched the web
for any information regarding the occultation and found nothing, not even at
the ALPO website where one would expect to have details posted. Because
this is a 10th mag. star, it is perhaps similarly comparable to finding
Phobos near Mars, which is difficult to detect close to the planet's limb.
At least I got out of bed to look through the telescope... always worth the
wake-up call.
-FRANK
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[mailto:az-observing-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Tom Polakis
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 8:10 AM
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Subject: [AZ-Observing] Anybody See Saturn Occultation?
I was out there last night, once at about 1:00, and again at 5:00. I
never saw the 10th-magnitude star that should have been near Saturn.
Seeing was pretty terrible, so you wouldn't expect to see much at ingress,
with Saturn 10 degrees above the horizon. It was still bad when Saturn
was near the zenith four hours later. I didn't expect to see the
reappearance, but at least hoped to see the star between the globe and the
C ring. For what it's worth, Tethys and Dione (both 10th magnitude) were
steadily visible at this time, but they were a bit farther out from the
glare of the planet.
Tom
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