If I read this right, tonight about 10 PM the occultation will start taking place for us in Utah. I would like to see it but when I look at the sky to the west right now (5:00PM) it looks doubtfull. One whether reprot I got on Tuesday said it will be clearing tonight, I don't know if that is still good or not. I would like to go out to the Rush Valley site but it may be a bit muddy still. Anybody have any good ideas for observing this occultation?
Jim Gibson
Kim Hyatt <khyatt@smithlayton.com> wrote:
Too bad the weather isn't promising - a similar occultation in 1989(?) was
one of the observing highlights of my astronomy life. If the weather
cooperates, I HIGHLY recommend that y'all try to observe this event.
-----Original Message-----
From: James Cobb [mailto:james@cobb.name]
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 8:00 AM
To: Utah Astronomy
Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Fwd: Saturn occults mag 8.5 star
If there is interest (and possibly a clear sky), I thought I'd send
around xephem predictions of the occultation for Salt Lake City. The
first is just before the rings encounter the star, the second is just
as the disk encounters the star. In a separate message I'll send the
other two contacts (to keep message size to approx 16 kB).
For reference, here is Patrick's dispatch on the subject
> Saturn To Cover A
Star
>
> Late Friday night (November 14-15) Saturn and its ring system glide
> right in
> front of an 8.4-magnitude star in Gemini, and observers in North and
> South
> America will have a ringside seat.
>
> http://SkyandTelescope.com/observing/objects/occultations
> http://SkyandTelescope.com/observing/objects/occultations/
> article_1102_1.asp
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