Asteroidal Occultation Tuesday evening

[DaveGee]

Blokes and Blokettes,

There's a beaut Astreoidal Occultation event for Tuesday evening for all Sydneysiders.

The star is bright and very red so should be easy with video, even in a small scope. see...
http://occsec.wellington.net.nz/planet/2006/updates/061003_688_6201_u.htm

I have just uploaded a Google Earth map of the path to...
http://users.tpg.com.au/users/daveg/maps/061003_Melanie.jpg

for those who wish to play in GE, load...
http://users.tpg.com.au/users/daveg/maps/061003_Melanie.KML
and save the file as something.KML and then start GE then load the file...easy peasy.

The star is SAO 161211 however my LX90 doesn't have it in it's cattledog, so have entered a USER OBJECT called Melanie at 18h14.8m, -14d52m and I plan to slew to nearby SAO 161275, sync on that and slew the 52minutes to the target star.

Regards
Dave

[74tuc]

Hello Dave,

This may be of help:

SAO 161211 (BD-14 4946; HD 167245)

Current (Tues>03-10-2006) apparent equat. coordinates:
Alp: 18h 15m 13.2s Del: -14° 51' 51"

Equat. coordinates (B1950):
Alp: 18h 11m 58.8s Del: -14° 52' 52"

V: 9.2m
Spectrum: K5

Jerry. :)

[74tuc]

Hi Dave,

Unfortunately for me I do not see an occultation the "miss distance" is 52" of arc @15:30 CAST on 03_10_2006

Some useful data:

688 Melanie

Equat. coordinates (03_Oct_2006 )
Geocentric: Alp: 18h 15m 30.1s Del: -14° 51' 53"
Topocentric: Alp: 18h 15m 29.9s Del: -14° 51' 52"
r=2.2164 AU

V: 15.3m (dim!!)

Regards,

Jerry.

[Checker]

Thanks for the heads up Dave.

[DaveGee]

AFAIK there were 4 observed misses across Sydney. So we were all stood up by Melanie!

DaveGault