ASTEROIDAL OCCULTATION - REPORT FORM +------------------------------+ +------------------------------+ | EAON | | IOTA/ES | | | | INTERNATIONAL OCCULTATION | | EUROPEAN ASTEROIDAL | | TIMING ASSOCIATION | | OCCULTATION NETWORK | | EUROPEAN SECTION | +------------------------------+ +------------------------------+ 1 DATE: 2021/02/14 STAR: UCAC4 562-010957 ASTEROID: 2000 AJ102 No: 71342 2 OBSERVER: Name: Daniel BLAZEWICZ Address: 32-015 Klaj, POLAND 3 OBSERVING STATION: Klaj Nearest city: Niepolomice (Poland) Longitude: E 20 19 04.2 (WGS84) Latitude: N 49 59 33.2 (WGS84) Altitude: 211 m (MSL) Single station +----------------------------+ 4 TIMING OF EVENTS: | | | EVENT REPORTED: UNCERTAIN | | | +----------------------------+ Event code S: observation Start I: Interruption start D: Disappearance J: Interruption end R: Reappearance B: Blink F: Flash E: observation End O: Other (specify) Abbreviations P.E.: Personal Equation = reaction time (for visual obs) Acc.: Accuracy (overall accuracy of the given time) Comments Event Time (UT) P.E. Acc. Code HH:MM:SS.ss S.ss S.ss S - 17:41:03 - - : D - 17:41:18.53 - - 0.25 : R - 17:41:19.90 - - 0.38 : E - 17:43:09 - - : Duration : 1.37 +/- 0.43 s Mid-event : 17:41:19.22 +/- 0.22 s 5 TELESCOPE: Type: NEWTON Aperture: 350 mm Magnification: prime focus f/4.8 Mount: EQUATORIAL with polar wedge Motor drive: YES 6 TIMING & RECORDING: Time source: NTP Stratum 1, Linux Ubuntu, synchronization every 32 s (NTP offset in the above period: -2.1 ms / +0.7 ms) Sensor: ZWO ASI174MM-C Recording: ZWO ASICAP V2.3 7 OBSERVING CONDITIONS: Atmospheric transparency: good Wind: moderate-strong Temperature: -6 deg C Star image stability: poor Minor planet visible: no 8 ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Exposition time: 0.5 s Camera temperature: -20 deg C The candidate does not pass the false positive test in pyOTE. Observed drop: 1.3 m Feed: ITALOccult (2021/02/11) Event time: 17:41:25 UT Error in time: 8 s Max duration: 0.5 s Star magnitude: 13.8 m Asteroid magnitude: 19.5 m Combined magnitude: 13.8 m Magnitude drop: 5.7 m Position: In the shadow, 1 km from the center line Probability: 2.5% Big thank you to both Wojciech Burzynski and Eric Frappa for their analysis in Tangra, AOTA, pyOTE, and valueable comments. The reported observation period is short due to wind. Tangra had problems with correct tracking of stars. That affected quality of generated light curve: there are false-positive light drops (outside the reported period). Manual inspection of images shown only single disappearance of the star during the reported period.