ASTEROIDAL OCCULTATION - REPORT FORM +------------------------------+ +------------------------------+ | EAON | | IOTA/ES | | | | INTERNATIONAL OCCULTATION | | EUROPEAN ASTEROIDAL | | TIMING ASSOCIATION | | OCCULTATION NETWORK | | EUROPEAN SECTION | +------------------------------+ +------------------------------+ 1 DATE: 2021/10/24 STAR: UCAC4 551-010883 ASTEROID: (523752) 2014 VU37 2 OBSERVER: Name: Daniel BLAZEWICZ Address: 32-015 Klaj, POLAND 3 OBSERVING STATION: Klaj Nearest city: Niepolomice (Poland) Longitude: E 20 19 03.5 (WGS84) Latitude: N 49 59 33.4 (WGS84) Altitude: 210 m (MSL) Single station +----------------------------+ 4 TIMING OF EVENTS: | | | EVENT REPORTED: NEGATIVE | | | +----------------------------+ 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 - 22:34:36 - - : E - 22:48:55 - - : 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: "chrony", 4 x NTP Stratum 1, Linux Ubuntu, ping 9 ms, 1-sigma < 1 ms Sensor: ZWO ASI174MM-C Recording: ZWO ASICAP V2.3 Exposure: 2 x 1000 ms = 2 s (i.e. stacked frames in post processing) Camera temperature: -30 deg C 7 OBSERVING CONDITIONS: Atmospheric transparency: fair Wind: no Temperature: 2 deg C Star image stability: fair Minor planet visible: no 8 ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Analyzed using PyMovie v3.2.4 Assuming there is no nearby stars 1-second exposures would be enough to detect complete disapearance, but there was one star close to the occulted one. To be on the safe side decided to stack each 2 frames into 1. In result effective exposure was 2 seconds. Personal feed (JPL#11 2021/10/08, Gaia EDR3): Event time: 22:41:01 UT Error in time: 88 s Max duration: 17.1 s Star magnitude: 15.480 m (and nearby 16.152, separation < 4 arcsec) Asteroid magnitude: 21.4 m Combined magnitude: 15.5 m Magnitude drop: 5.9 m (1.14 m after including the nearby star) Position: 211 km outside the 1-sigma zone Probability: 4.3 % Lucky Star event - https://lesia.obspm.fr/lucky-star/occ.php?p=75874