A 13 second occultation was recorded by Dave Herald, using an SCT Telescope and Watec 910BD camera.

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Observers:
  1    D Herald, Murrumbateman, New South Wales, Australia
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Discussion:

The circle above is plotted at the expected diameter of Arctica. With only one chord, it is not possible to tell if Dave was east or west of the centre line of the event. The model has been plotted centred on the observed chord.

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

Herald:

Observational Data:

Observation details for MP ( 1031 ) Arctica
By Star              UCAC2 32157923
On 2018-02-14  at 15:21:47.0

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Observer   Dave Herald
Location   Murrumbateman, NSW, Australia
Longitude  +148:59
Latitude   -34:57
Altitude   594 m
Datum      WGS84
Telescope SCT including Cass and Mak
Aperture   40 cm
Seeing     Strong flickering Clear 
Camera Type  Watec 910BD    PAL/CCIR      
Camera Delay 
Timing     GPS - time inserted Video with frame analysis
Disappearance  15:21:44.06
Reappearance   15:21:57.41
Comments:  Lightcurve from 15:20:20 to 15:22:40 by Tangra v3.6.15 using
AperturePhotometry/AverageBackground. Analysis by AOTA v4.5.3.10.
Report prepopulated by IOTA Reporting Add-in for OW ver.1.9