This is a good event that almost slipped past me! Through Santa Cruz
Alt=23, Az=189 in Ophiuchus
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Richard Nolthenius
I only discovered this event 35min before the event. Rushed to make charts and publish them, then to my car, figured I could get it at the foot of driveway, only to find a firetruck there with lights spinning and blazing for some call across the street; I continued in my car, to Santa Cruz High school, a back alley at the driveway (locked gate) into a drive area between two sets of small utility buildings. About 100 ft south of the right angle in the road. This spot had a good view towards the direction of target 12 deg east of Antares. Speedy set up and on-target in time. Got recording at 16x. I did adjust the brightness twice before the event. No clouds and calm, changes in brightness should be reflected OK in ref stars so I assume it'll be OK. I left it recording for almost 2 min afterwards to get a good length of time for getting good statistics. Target was very red.
Kirk did not get my late post in time to set up.
V=13.2 B=16.2 so thats W=.31*(16.2-13.2) = 12.3
It did not look 12.3, it looked more like 13.0 is my guess.