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After a rechecking my video several times, as well as being told I must be within the limits of Pluto's atmosphere, I finally found the tell-tale dip of an atmospheric graze in the signal. I'm posting the light curve for you all to see as I don't think it gives any secrets away, or breaks any information embargoes, it just shows what kind of effect you get with this kind of thing. I have seen a curve from a NZ observer who saw a total occultation by the body of the planet, and it looks quite different to this, but still has the expected slow fade down to a base-level during the main event, then a slow fade back up. So knowing that my light curve is just atmosphere, its a bit different, but I'm still intrigued as to why it's not an even curve - the egress of the graze is steeper than the ingress.
ChrisM, John Talbot is interested in collating local results for the RASNZ Occ Section report on this event, but if you're working with MIT you might be embargoed? They are looking for other people who might have caught the atmosphere and we might be the only people in that zone. Dean Hooper was too far north, he went to Nagambie in hope of clear skies but got caught in fog. The Dunham's got clouded out but were further north again, anyway. I'm just thinking you might have been inside of me, as Dave Herald had planned to do a station at Bombala in NSW that would have been south of me also.
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