ASTEROIDAL OCCULTATION - REPORT FORM +------------------------------+ +------------------------------+ | EAON | | IOTA/ES | | | | INTERNATIONAL OCCULTATION | | EUROPEAN ASTEROIDAL | | TIMING ASSOCIATION | | OCCULTATION NETWORK | | EUROPEAN SECTION | +------------------------------+ +------------------------------+ 1 DATE: 2022/07/18 STAR: UCAC4 345-191775 ASTEROID: (7994) Bethellen 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: POSITIVE | | | +----------------------------+ 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 - 20:03:00 - - : D - 20:06:18.71 - - 0.18 : R - 20:06:20.10 - - 0.18 : E - 20:09:22 - - : Duration : 1.39 +/- 0.25 s Mid-event : 20:06:19.41 +/- 0.12 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: "chrony", 4 x NTP Stratum 1, Linux Ubuntu, 1 sigma < 1 ms Sensor: ZWO ASI174MM-C Recording: ZWO ASICAP V2.3 Exposure: 350 ms 7 OBSERVING CONDITIONS: Atmospheric transparency: poor Wind: weak Temperature: 16 deg C Star image stability: fair Minor planet visible: no 8 ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Analyzed using PyMovie v3.4.2 and AOTA v4.2022.7.5 S/N of occulted star: 4.1 - 6 (AOTA) Camera temperature: -20 deg C Star disappears on recording however PyMovie detects light drop: 1.8 mag Applied approximate recording delay: 26 ms (based on the report for similar hardware configuration and the same both USB setting and ROI, and similar exposure, published by Pierre Le Cam on http://www.nocturno.fr/ost/ost.html) CentralEurope feed (2022/05/20): Event time: 20:06:17 UT Error in time: 2 s Max duration: 1.3 s Star magnitude: 13.2 m Asteroid magnitude: 17.3 m Combined magnitude: 13.2 m Magnitude drop: 4.1 m Position: In the shadow, 25 km from the central line Probability: 53.7 %