This is mostly a favorable event: 3.9s duration, 43 degrees altitude due south, not far from an easy to ID galaxy, RUWE is good. Great time of night... only one problem: it's only 14.6 magnitude. It will take long integrations to get it. 32x? maybe even 64x? It will be valuable to find out, actually. There's a 97% moon low in the east which will add sky brightness. The sun is at -14 and should be only slightly brightening the background sky.
It's a good practice event for our newest occulter - Danika. I plan to set up on TreeTop Lane in western suburbs of Scotts Valley, up Graham Hill Rd near the centerline. Plan would be to pick her up at 8pm and head up to the site and practice procedures. Berhard is in good position for this one too, and his larger scope and CMOS camera may be a great choice. I'll be interested to see how his imaging compares to our 8bit images.
Alt=43, Az=183 in Virgo, not far from NGC 4939 an SBc spiral galaxy at V=11.3 magnitude
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