A 4 second occultation was recorded by John Broughton, using an SCT Telescope and Watec 120N+ camera.

Three misses were recorded for this event.

View the IOTA update.

Observers:
  1(M) J Bradshaw, Samford Valley, Queensland, Australia
  2    J Broughton, Reedy Creek, Queensland, Australia      
  3(M) J Broughton, Beerwah, Queensland, Australia 
  4(M) J Broughton, Cooroy, Queensland, Australia
  5(P) Prediction- IOTA Feed                

         



       

Discussion:

The event appears to be a little way south of the prediction. The DAMIT model has been plotted on the centre line of the observed chord.

The figure below shows the Tangra light curve of the occultation.

Observational Data:

Observation details for MP ( 24 ) Themis
By Star              UCAC4 383-163071
On 2016-07-28  at 13:52:46.0

_______________________________

Observer   Jonathan Bradshaw
Location   Samford Valley, Qld, Australia
Longitude  +152:50
Latitude   -27:22
Altitude   80 m
Datum      WGS84
Telescope SCT including Cass and Mak
Aperture   36 cm
Seeing     Steady Clear 
Camera Type  Watec 910BD    NTSC/EIA      
Camera Delay 
Timing     GPS - time inserted Video with frame analysis

Missed

Comments: Love the new colours!  Report prepopulated by IOTA Reporting Add-in for OW ver.1.8

_______________________________

Observer   John Broughton
Location   Reedy Creek, QLD, AU
Longitude  +153:23
Latitude   -28:06
Altitude   66 m
Datum      WGS84
Telescope SCT including Cass and Mak
Aperture   25 cm
Seeing     Steady Clear 
Camera Type  Watec 120N+    PAL/CCIR      
Camera Delay 
Timing     GPS - other linking Video with frame analysis
Disappearance  13:52:39.38
Reappearance   13:52:53.14
Comments:   

_______________________________

Observer   John Broughton
Location   Beerwah, QLD, AU
Longitude  +153:01
Latitude   -26:50
Altitude   25 m
Datum      WGS84
Telescope SCT including Cass and Mak
Aperture   25 cm
Seeing     Steady Clear 
Camera Type  LN-300-11673   PAL/CCIR      
Camera Delay 
Timing     GPS - other linking Video with frame analysis

Missed

Comments:   

_______________________________

Observer   John Broughton
Location   Cooroy, QLD, AU
Longitude  +152:54
Latitude   -26:24
Altitude   114 m
Datum      WGS84
Telescope SCT including Cass and Mak
Aperture   32 cm
Seeing     Steady Clear 
Camera Type  Watec 120N+    PAL/CCIR      
Camera Delay 
Timing     GPS - time inserted Video with frame analysis

Missed

Comments: