Tony, I happen to have the rather pointless and unofficial world record for observing the faintest ever asteroidal occultation of a 14.5th mag star. I mention this because your 8" and GSTAR combo could have made this observation too.
Yes, you would have had to use a higher level of integration which would have reduced your acuracy. But would this have still be useful? Yes, absolutely. There is an enourmous scientific payload of every extra observation, no matter how inacurate. Just getting the duration of an event with a stopwatch is massively helpful.
Hope you get involved,
Jonathan
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Originally Posted by tonybarry
Hello Jacqui,
I also have an 8" scope (LX90) and a GStar which I can use to observe the occultation. What do the knowledgeable people say about this combination? Will it suffice? Or is the limiting magnitude of the optical / CCD system too great?
One thing is that the GStar will need to integrate to some extent to obtain the necessary light collection. This will reduce the time accuracy. Will this allow the observations to be still useful?
Regards,
Tony Barry
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