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Old March 30th 07, 06:36 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Chris L Peterson
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Default Congratulations Chris Peterson

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:56:23 -0700, "Howard Lester"
wrote:

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.


Are you referring to their 30" on, I think, Table Mountain?


Moore Observatory is at Columbia Basin College in Pasco, Washington. The
data were collected with a 16" LX200 and a Meade DSI camera. The S/N is
poor, probably because the field was only at 20° altitude and because of
the low sensitivity of the camera (the DSI is a terrible choice for
photometry).

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