Agata Rożek describes current plans for Earth-based lightcurve observations of #Didymos this year; to give a midpoint between the #DARTMission and the #HeraMission.
If anyone on the South Island has >20 cm telescopes that could be driven to a particular stretch of road south of Dunedin; the asteroids #Didymos and #Dimorphos will apparently run in front of a star as seen from there on 2024 May 5 - https://lagrange.oca.eu/fr/blog .
Not much notice; but maybe someone is already planning something?
@michael_w_busch The person organising that emailed me a while back, but I never heard back after I requested a time for a telecon that wasn't the initial offering of 5 am. So not sure what's up
@astrokiwi Kleomenios Tsiganis' presentation at the Hera workshop yesterday unfortunately did not include details on the May 5 occultation - he focused more on the ones over Australia. Similarly, Agata mostly talked about the lightcurve observations; but mentioned the August 13 occultation since that star is particularly bright.
If anyone over your way should be trying to record the May 5 occultation; good luck to them!
@michael_w_busch I suspected they ended up more focused on the Aussie ones when I didn't get a reply and a mail went out to the Aussie astro mailing list a little later. Are light curves still desirable?
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