The Occultation of a W=14.0 Star for 0.3s by Asteroid (82409) 2000 GO89

May 27, 2026 at 9:25:06pm

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This is clearly difficult, but the altitude is OK at 28, in the best, lowest azimuth in the west for home, and when I looked out a half hour before the event, it looked rather clearer in many parts of the sky than I expected.

Alt=28 Az=272 in Cancer

Results:

I hurried and drove to the edge of the street, the object was lower left of Jupiter and looked in a good direction. Jupiter looked clear enough. I got on target with enough time. But the bright twilight sky with sun=-12 at event time, and the gibbous moon, and the clouds, made it very tough to go deeper than 16x. At clearest moments, I could see the brighter star to its left, but never did see the target, and the clouds thickened as event got closer. I recorded, but have no hope of getting it. Too bad, since I was on the centerline and the rank was high so it was a high confidence event.

I was the only observer to try it.