Wednesday, April 07, 2010

April 11 occultation

The occultation of mag 12.3 star 2UCAC 39101067 (in Taurus) by asteroid (334) Chicago is coming up—Sunday evening. Rank is fairly high (85). And it's going to happen over south-western Ontario. Mom's house is 40 km from the centre line!



So, I'm going to visit family for the weekend. Do some more work on her observatory. And make a point of using her 'scope, the old Edmund Newtonian. Hopefully, I'll not have any trouble with the eyepieces. Need to remember to take dew heaters...

Starting to watch the weather, both the Environment Canada London page and the Clear Sky Chart for Fingal. It's been grim the last few days. Looks like it is improving for the weekend. But will it be good enough?

Guy will be trying for this one too. Although he's going to set up to the east, between me and Toronto.

Started my preparations using Steve Preston's event page. Made custom finder charts for Newtonian and Telrad setup using Stellarium. Some time ago I had added the asteroid data using JPL's SSD.

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