+--------------------------------+ +--------------------------------+ ASTERIODAL OCCULTATION - REPORT FORM +--------------------------------+ +--------------------------------+ EAON & IOTA-ES EUROPEAN ASTEROIDAL OCCULTATION NETWORK INTERNATIONAL OCCULTATION TIMING ASSOCIATION EUROPEAN SECTION +--------------------------------+ +--------------------------------+ 1. DATE: 2011 JAN 25 STAR: TYC 1228-00368-1 ASTEROID: (144) Vibilia 2. OBSERVER Name: Stefano SPOSETTI Address: 6525 GNOSCA - Switzerland Email: stefanosposetti@ticino.com 3. OBSERVING STATION Nearest city: CH-6500 Bellinzona Longitude: 46deg 13min 53.2sec (N) Latitude: 9deg 1min 26.5sec (E) Altitude: 260m 4. TIMING OF EVENTS Occultation recorded: POSITIVE Type of event: "S"tart observation; "I"nterrupt-start; "D"isappearance; "B"link; "F"lash; "E"nd observation; "I"nterrupt-end; "R"eappearance; "O"ther (specify) Personal Equation Substracted: No Event Time (UTC) Accuracy + Comments code: HH:MM:SS.ss S.ss -S : 17:32:00 -D : 17:34:12.62 0.03 -R : 17:34:21.18 0.03 -E : 17:37:00 Duration: 8.56s +- 0.04s, centered at 17:34:16.9 UTC 5.TELESCOPE: Type: Newtonian Aperture: 40cm f/4 Magnification: - Mount: equatorial Motor drive: yes 6. TIMING & RECORDING Timekeeping: KIWI-OSD with GPS Garmin 18 LVC Sensor/Camera: Videocamera WAT-902H Ultimate, 1/2" Sony CCD-Sensor ICX429ALL Videocamera settings: Gain=HI , Gamma=LO Device of recording: Personal computer, TV-AV PCI-TV7130, S-video input, Virtualdub software, saved on Harddisk Mode of recording: Integration time=0.04s (25 Img/s), CCIR, Huffyuv Time insertion: KIWI-OSD 7. OBSERVING CONDITIONS Atmospheric transparency: fair/good, some clouds passing Wind: none Star image stability: good Minor Planet Visible: yes 8. ADDITIONAL COMMENTS I captured this positive event from my observatory in automatic and unattended mode. I started the recording of the avi files with KIWI OSD time_stamp at 16:03:00UTC (about 1h30min before the event). KIWI OSD was detached, while the acquiring process continued. The telescope was directed to the target and focused 20mins before the predicted event time. (1h30min before, the sky was too bright to acquire the right target field). At 18:46:00UTC (more than 1h after the predicted event) the KIWI OSD signal was reattached. The reset button was pressed and the time information was again stamped on the frames. Only at that moment the capturing process was stopped. A total of more than 240'000 frames were aquired. No dropped and inserted frames were detected. The post analysis gave a recorded frame rate of 24.999381 frames/sec. The Disappearance and Reappearance UTC times were calculated from the frames number information. During this time I traveled about 30km north with a mobile station equipped with videocamera and KIWI OSD. Unfortunately clouds came in and no observation from there was possible.