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There is a chart format here: https://moonphases.co.uk/moon-calendar. Don’t know if its printable. There may be other options in a deeper internet search. Good luck with your observations.
Jeremy, I havent read any reports of an occultation being observed. I was in the predicted path and It was cloudy here. I know of several observatories who tried – but with the same outcome.
Tim
Looks like Richard (Chester) was closest to the track – inside by 1 km, while Alex and Stuart were North and South respectively by about 1 path width. I have observations from Great Yarmouth area where there was a small possibility (S Hubbard, A Robertson). Both report no occultation. Lars (Denmark) you were about 2 path widths North of the predicted track. I have one other video observation from Derek Robson and your data is being looked at.
Alex and I will be at ESOP36 in Germany 5 days over this weekend so there may be a lull in feedback – Thanks to all contributors and to Alex for the alert for this event.
There was a typographical error in my message. Those planning to monitor the (56) Malete event, please note this is predicted for Sunday September 24th at arround 0305 UT (not the 27th) – Tim.
http://www.asteroidoccultation.com/2017_09/0924_56_51606.htm
Alex suggests my web pages in his note https://britastro.org/node/11043#overlay-context=node/11043
These pages were written some time ago, but still offer some ideas to follow up like “Drift Scan”. I did some experiments with this (Detailed How To section 17) using a 300mm lens and a simulated occultation. I suggest this might be a usable method to record it with a DSLR and an un-driven optic. I hope someone will see the occultation and time the start and duration of the event. I wont be observing this (too far away) but I look forward to receiving any results (negative or positive) by whatever means is available – best of luck and my regards to the Chester group.Hi, I dont keep regular stats but the best month was November in terms of clear nights. Imaging took place on 11 clear evenings, and a number of Lunar occs were timed in Jan, Feb, Mar and Nov. My tally for asteroid occultation observations over the year indicates a success rate of 8%. I have also monitored more low probability events (small objects) this year than in past years. All timings were reported to IOTA
In all 46 Negative (no occultation) and 4 very nice Positives asteroid events have been recorded. So a good year for me.
Tim H (nr Reading, UK)The 12 observations from UK are on EURASTER.NET. What a great night and great result for UK observers ! The profile of the asteroid can be seen on the link to chords for Sapientia. Peter Carson’s observation is chord 15.
My video is also on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0lpfz_S5Js
The asteroid is just visible with the star occulted. [OO 30cm F/4, WAT-910HX, 0.08sec, GPSBOXSPRITE2]
Tim
