This is a bright and very long event, and the location is only about 10 degrees below/right of the 2001 YE79 event 14 minutes earliier. Euphrosyne has a moon, but it's separate prediction is unknown for this event tonight. In the unlikely event that we get a central occultation by the moonlet, its occultation will last only 0.41s. The target star is W=12.7.
The duration is long at 30s, but the depth of the occultation will be shallow, at only 0.7 magnitude in R. The SDSS star chart shows another UCAC4 dimmer star just ~13 arcsec away, which will also complicate the reductions of our observations. The 100% full moon is only 42 degrees away, farther east in eastern Scorpius.
The centerline is very close to MIRA, and the northern limit is through Sacramento and just north of Davis, where Ted Swift will try it. This is the 7th largest asteroid with a wide path. It's been tracked since 1854 and so the orbit is likely quite accurate. The asteroid is also believed to be extremely close to spherical in shape. Seeing the moonlet would be very lucky, and difficult. There's another fainter star quite close to the target star
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Many signed up for this event, with its wide path - but troubles bit everyone - except me.
I got a clear and long drop in brightness visually as I watched on the monitor. I set up at Sunlit lane, NE end of the gravel area.