I recorded 8 events last night. Temp was -6C and everything worked fairly well except that the seeing wasn’t good, especially when the Moon was at low elevation over neighbours’ rooftops.
Running at 100 fps I didn’t detect any steps in the DD of Merope, Alcyone or Pleione, but Atlas displayed one of about 0.08s (attached). The Occult prediction gave details of Atlas’ multiple nature. Mag 3.6 Atlas has components Aa of mag 3.8 and Ab of mag 6.8, separation 0.22″, predicted step duration of 0.12s. It looks like Ab was occulted first.
Tim – this weekend I’ll run it through Limovie and prepare a double star report and work through the other events.
Great to get a clear night for M45 – but please arrange it for warmer weather next time. 🙂
Alex.
