[MikeRushton]

It looks like we picked it up on our Crayford meteor camera.
I’ll analyse it soon.

[MikeRushton]

Tim,

In addition to the occultation of NeilBone I notice that there is an occultation by our very own (4522) Britastra coming up. UCAC4 407-070264 (Mag 12.8) is occulted on 1/4/2021 at 02:54. There is a drop of 4.6 Mag for 2.7 secs Unfortunately the very gibbous moon is only 26 deg away. The track extends from Brighton through Norwich and off into the North Sea. (Details from the planned observations feed to OccultWatcher software).

[MikeRushton]

The explanatory supplement to the Astronomical Almanac (1992 edition page 477 para 9.211Equinoxes and solstices) defines the time of the equinox as that when the sun’s apparent ecliptic longitude is 0, 90, 180, 270 rather than in terms of declination. I suppose from a geocentric point of view these should be equal but I wonder if it may account for the difference.

Mike

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