On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:56:04 -0700, "Howard Lester"
wrote:

I wonder if the 2.3-m IR observatory in Laramie, Wyoming saw it. ? The MMT
got it here in southern Arizona, but to what extent I don't know - I haven't
asked!

The weather across the southwest was uncharacteristically bad, and a
number of sites were clouded out. But the real problem was that all the
big scopes from Southern California to Texas were expected to be much
closer to the central path. In the end, they were so far south of the
path that they only caught the edge of the atmosphere. That may turn out
to be useful for refining the atmospheric model of Pluto, but it is hard
to use the data for refining Pluto's position. Have a look at the curves
at the bottom of http://calys.obspm.fr/%7Esicardy/18_march_07/index.html
for an idea of what different sites could have captured (including Mt
Hopkins).

I haven't heard that the WIRO facility in Wyoming has reported any data,
although they planned on observing the event. As far as I know, the only
site to record a total occultation was the Moore Observatory in
Washington.

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com