Occultation by asteroid (623) Chimaera

[lukebl]

Hi all.

 

I successfully recorded only my second asteroid occultation very early this morning. I was just a mile from the centre line of the occultation of a relatively bright star (mag 9.8) and recorded a 3.7 second occultation by (623) Chimaera, using a RunCam Night Eagle Astro camera, 200mm f/8 RC, 0.5x reducer. Capturing at 25fps.  Here is the light curve, processed with Tangra software:

 

 

And here are before and during screen grabs from the video.

 

During occultation:

 

[furrysocks2]

Great result! Well done.

[PH-R]

Excellent!