究竟這一次小行星掩星見掩帶在香港以南還是在香港以北呢?試試從 Steve Preston 預報資料和原本 Win Occult 3.6 的預報資料中找尋。
Steve Preston 預報
IOTA/IOTA-ES occultation update for
(230) Athamantis / TYC 5542-00671-1 event on 2005 Dec 17, 20:06 UT
Visible from Hong Kong, China
Summary
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On 2005 Dec 17 UT, the 109 km diameter asteroid (230) Athamantis will occult a
10.3 mag star in the constellation Virgo for observers along a path across Hong
Kong, China.
In the case of an occultation, the combined light of the asteroid and the star
will drop by 2.3 mag to 12.4 mag (the magnitude of the asteroid) for at most 3.8
seconds.
This update is based on UNSO/Flagstaff astrometry for the asteroid kindly
provided by Ron Stone, historical astrometry from the MPC files (via AstDys),
and the following catalogs for the star position: UCAC.
The event at a glimpse
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* Rank: 97
* date and approx. time of event: 2005 Dec 17, 20:02 - 2005 Dec 17, 20:09 UT
* midpoint of event [JD]: 2453722.33771667
* magnitude of target star: 10.3
* magnitude drop [mag]: 2.3
* estimated maximum duration [s]: 3.8
* Moon: 95 % sunlit, 90° distance
* Sun: 66° distance
* rough path description: Hong Kong, China
Occelmnt 中觀測不確定度是
------ occelmnt file for Occult BEGIN -----------------------------------
2005 Dec 17
230 Athamantis
20h 6.3m UT
10.3 13 1 31.473-14 47 12.65TYC 5542-00671-1 0.0
12.4 109 3.8 2.748 3.250 -22.46
167.255 -14.780 237.51 -23.38
20.1052 .06150 .12773 14.72732 -7.01790 -0.00502 0.00176
2000 156.30230120051216.00000139.032945239.970561 9.4351780.061369812.382489002.236276117.355 0.27
RATE 2.6801410 .0000000 .0000000 .0000000 .00000000 .00000000 .00000000
Meas 0.025 0.020 93.0 1.380 0.021
------ occelmnt file for Occult END -----------------------------------
原本 Win Occult 3.6 的預報香港見小行星掩星的機會率只有 27%
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