Wellington Astronomical Society

Wellington Astronomical Society



Occultations close to Wellington in the next month

This page will be used to notify of Minor Planet (MP) and brighter lunar events which are expected to be visble from the Wellington area. For more details check the OccSec web site or for MP events run Occult Watcher or for lunar events run Occult.
Remember lunar events are good practise for your observing and reduction processes. The doubles mentioned are also very valuable scientifically, so please have a go at those at least.


Asteroid events Mar-Apr near Wellington.
     Date          Time(UT) Event
2010 Wed 10 March  13:00   (188)   Menippe occults TYC 4879-00454-1 m10.9
2010 Sat 13 March  10:35   (828)   Lindemannia occults TYC 1397-00373-1 m11.2
2010 Mon 22 March  07:49   (3346)  Gerla occults TYC 12181-1 m10
                                    (low 7deg to the north)
2010 Thu 25 March  10:36   (313)   Chaldaea occults UCAC2 36263443 m11.5
2010 Sat 27 March  12:33   (15)    Eunomia occults TYC 7394-01305-1 m10.5
2010 Wed 31 March  14:13   (1390)  Abastumani occults UCAC2 14931415 m11.8

(Several of these are in the east where I cannot observe which is why
I have not registered for all of them - jt)

Lunar Occultations predictions for Wellington involving bright stars
that you should be able to observe with a 6" telescope.

Occultation prediction for Wellington
E. Longitude  174 46  0.0,  Latitude -41 17  0.0,  Alt.    0m;  Telescope dia 15cm

       day  Time   P   Star  Sp  Mag  Mag    % Elon Sun  Moon   CA   PA  VA  AA
 y   m  d  h  m  s      No  D     v    r V  ill     Alt Alt Az   o    o   o   o
--- New Moon ---
10 Mar  4 11 27 32 r  158354 K5  7.7  6.8   81- 128     32  86  52S 255  23 235
10 Mar  4 16 34 31 R    2039 A0  5.5  5.5   79- 126     65 333  54N 328 170 308
10 Mar  4 17 57 46 R    2045cK0  6.4        79- 125  -2 55 300  79S 282 146 262
      2045 is double: AB 6.40 10.51 0.70"  88.2
      2045 is a close double. Observations are highly desired
10 Mar  6 11 18 29 r    2283 B8  6.8  6.8v  61- 103     14 109  73N 299  68 286
      2283 = V0928 Sco, 6.74 to 6.76, V, Type ACV
10 Mar  6 13 39 39 r  184059 K2  8.0  7.1   60- 102     40  89  35S 227 351 214
10 Mar  6 15 19  2 r  184104 K0  7.3  6.5   60- 101     58  69  74S 265  35 253
10 Mar  6 16 39  4 R    2311 B8  6.3  6.3   60- 101     70  38  49S 240  29 228
10 Mar  6 18  6 50 r    2317 A0  6.6  6.6   59- 101  -1 72 335  44S 235  75 223
10 Mar  6 23 23 20 m    2347 A4  4.6  4.2s  57-  99  51 19 254  12N 358 230 347
   R2347 = 19 Scorpii
      2347 = NSV 7632, 4.52 to 4.58, V
10 Mar  7 14 21 23 R    2442 M1  5.9  5.0s  50-  90     38  92  86S 271  35 264
      2442 = NSV 20878, 5.93 to 5.98, Hp
10 Mar  7 14 23 54 R    2443cF3  5.7  5.5   50-  90     39  91  70N 296  60 289
   R2443 = 26 Ophiuchi
      2443 is double: ** 6.6 6.6 0.10"  90.0**
      2443 has been reported as non-instantaneous (OCc1496).
      Observations are highly desired
10 Mar  7 15 56 40 r  184960 M0  8.2  7.3   50-  89     56  74  38N 327  94 321
10 Mar  7 17 17 15 r  185008 F2  8.2  8.0   49-  89 -10 69  48  32S 217 359 210
10 Mar  8 14 22 56 R    2577 O7  6.2  6.2   40-  79     29  99  68S 248  13 246
   R2577 = 63 (Ophiuchi)/Sagittarii
10 Mar  8 16 49 25 r    2590 B8  8.2  8.1   39-  78     56  74  16S 196 323 194
10 Mar 10 15 18 32 r  188421 M1  7.7  6.8   22-  56     19 101  49N 302  70 310
10 Mar 10 15 34  2 R    2877 K0  7.8  7.1   22-  56     22  99  54S 224 352 233
10 Mar 10 16  1 26 r  188460cG5  8.5  8.0   22-  56     27  95  43S 213 340 222
    188460 is double: ** 9.7 9.7 0.050" 350.0**
    188460 has been reported as non-instantaneous (OCc1583).
    Observations are highly desired
10 Mar 10 17 16 26 r  188508 G8  8.5  8.0   22-  56 -11 40  83  14S 185 312 193
10 Mar 11 15 24 32 r  163603 K1  8.3  7.7   15-  45     10 105  75S 242  12 255
10 Mar 11 15 28  6 R    2989 G2  6.7  6.4   15-  45     10 104  38S 206 336 218
10 Mar 11 17  2  1 R    2996 M0  7.7  6.8   14-  45     27  89  79S 247  15 260
10 Mar 12 16  3 51 R    3109 K0  6.6  6.1    9-  34      6 102  46S 213 343 229
10 Mar 12 17 35 42 r    3117 K1  8.0  7.4    8-  34  -8 23  87  31N 315  85 332
--- New Moon ---
10 Mar 23  8 47 25 d     918 K0  7.0  6.5   49+  88     15 326  20S 160   7 161
10 Mar 25  7 26 14 d   79899 G5  7.0  6.5   70+ 114     28  13  89N 100 270  90
10 Mar 25  9 52 24 d    1223 F8  7.7  7.4   71+ 115     25 335  74S 118 318 108
10 Mar 26 11 28 35 d    1360 K0  7.4  6.7   82+ 129     26 323  83N  98 306  83
10 Mar 29 11 46 46 d    1717 G5  7.4  6.9   99+ 170     53   1  81N  79 258  56
   Distance of 1717 to Terminator = 12.8"; to 3km sunlit peak = 3.8"
10 Mar 30 14 33 11 r    1845SG8  6.5  5.9s 100- 172     51 313  75N 344 197 321
      1845 is triple: AB 6.6 9.7 29.5" 296.8 : AC 6.6 11.0 142" 211.8
      1845 = NSV 5994, 6.49, range 0.07, V
   Distance of 1845 to Terminator = 8.3"; to 3km sunlit peak = 1.0"
10 Mar 31 14  2 55 R    1970SA0  6.2  6.2   97- 160     64 343  71S 285 118 263
   R1970 = 85 Virginis
      1970 is quadruple: ** 6.5 8.2 0.039" 149.0**
      : ** 6.5 8.4 0.061" 329.0** : AB 6.2 11.7 44" 312.6
      1970 has been reported as non-instantaneous (OCc 331).
      Observations are highly desired


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