Re: [BAA Comets] 11th magnitude star occulted by Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann as seen from UK on May 07 22:43UT Nick James (08 May 2023 05:20 UTC)

Re: [BAA Comets] 11th magnitude star occulted by Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann as seen from UK on May 07 22:43UT Nick James 08 May 2023 05:20 UTC

Richard,

I was monitoring this in Chelmsford using a Celestron Edge HD 11 +
ASI6200. Due to the low altitude half the telescope aperture was
occulted by my observatory shed and the the rest was looking through the
branches of a tree. Because of this I had to use 0.25s exposure to get
the star.

The sky was clear but but no occultation was detected here.

Nick.

On 04/05/2023 19:48, rmiles.btee at btinternet.com (via baa-comet list)
wrote:
> 29P Occults a 11.7m TYC 1888-00333-1 in Gemini, May 07, 2242-2245UT
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> I would like to alert you to this extremely rare occultation by the ~60 km
> nucleus of Comet 29P due this Sunday, late evening.
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