{"id":5514,"date":"2014-02-24T09:15:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T13:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=5514"},"modified":"2014-03-04T06:59:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T10:59:39","slug":"asteroidal-occultation-nike-and-tyc-0642-01123-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2014\/02\/asteroidal-occultation-nike-and-tyc-0642-01123-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroidal occultation Nike and TYC  0642-01123-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0304_307_33560_Map.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0304_307_33560_Map-299x224.gif\" alt=\"0304_307_33560_Map\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0304_307_33560_Map-299x224.gif 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0304_307_33560_Map-150x112.gif 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0304_307_33560_Map-1023x767.gif 1023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a>On Monday evening 2014 March 03 the  Asteroid Nike (307) will occult the star TYC 0642-01123-1<\/p>\n<p>UT Time: 01:54:05 Tuesday 2014 March 04 (subtract 5 hours for EST)<br \/>\nLocation: Areas north of Kingston to Perth  Star Magnitude 9.7, max duration 1.7 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Plugging in the numbers of our location into Stellarium, we get an approximate azimuth of 262 degrees (just a little south of west) and an altitude of approx 20 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news is that this means we will not be able to use the telescope we had planned on, as the house and trees are in the way.<br \/>\nThat means going mobile, which means more power issues, more setup issues, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Updated 2014 March 04<br \/>\nToo &#038;^#*$ cold and windy out.  missed the occultation.  approx -19C with a wind from the west, coming right up into your face.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s hoping that Regulus on March 20 will be much warmer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday evening 2014 March 03 the Asteroid Nike (307) will occult the star TYC 0642-01123-1 UT Time: 01:54:05 Tuesday 2014 March 04 (subtract 5 hours for EST) Location: Areas north of Kingston to Perth Star Magnitude 9.7, max duration 1.7 seconds. Plugging in the numbers of our location into Stellarium, we get an approximate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}