This is a long 4s event and decently bright. A good candidate for moonlet hunting. The path is wide and covers all of Santa Cruz County. The whole team is in the path.
Alt=31, Az=173 in Sagittarius, 12deg left and slightly above Nunki
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Karl got on email too late to set up. Kirk and I got it from home...
I observed at 4x from home, under the palm tree. Got a roughly 9s positive recorded.
I got an obvious 11.5781s event for Heikanen on Sep.10, 2x from home.
I originally used a min/max in PYOTE of 2/300 since it was predicted for 9.22 sec and I used 2x, but it gave an error, "Invalid solution: max event limit constrained solution",
So I increased it to 2/500 and it found the 11.5781s event, longer than predicted.
NIE sigma distance = 48.8
magDrop report: percentDrop: 83.4 magDrop: 1.948 +/- 0.198 (0.95 ci)
DNR: 1.97
D time: [04:04:48.9665]
D: 0.6800 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0189} seconds
D: 0.9500 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0709} seconds
D: 0.9973 containment intervals: {+/- 0.1650} seconds
R time: [04:05:00.5446]
R: 0.6800 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0189} seconds
R: 0.9500 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0709} seconds
R: 0.9973 containment intervals: {+/- 0.1650} seconds
Duration (R - D): 11.5781 seconds
Duration: 0.6800 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0308} seconds
Duration: 0.9500 containment intervals: {+/- 0.0866} seconds
Duration: 0.9973 containment intervals: {+/- 0.1835} seconds
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