EAON - INFO N° 39

 

THE    “TERCIDINA EVENT”

 

 

                (345) TERCIDINA, a 100 km-large asteroid, occulted the bright star (Mv = 5.5) HIP 19388 = FK6 1115
 = 44 TAU =  w1 TAU on 2002 September 17.

 

                109 observers, from 17 countries have been involved. Many of them travelled to observe, some for more than 1500 km, some to be clouded out at the last minute. You will find, next page, the list of their abbreviations, in alphabetical order. 76 of them (in bold characters) recorded an occultation and 21, not. Taking into account double or multiple stations, multiple observations by the same observer but several methods, there have been 77 positive reports.

                Thirteen observers reported cloudy weather :

 

BCL

Philippe  Bernascolle

FR

 

MLU

Silko Molau

DE

BEI

Wolfgang Beisker

DE

 

NBU

Nikolai Buromsky

UA

DKO

Denis Denissenko

RU

 

NSH

Nikolay Shatsky

RU

ELL

Andrew Elliott

UK

 

SKO

Skokic Ivica

HR

FOC

M.A Fernandez-Ocana

ES

 

THO

Bertrand Thooris

BE

IBV

Ivan Bryuhanov

BY

 

VGH

Vladimir Vargashkin

RU

LKV

Lilia Kazantseva

UA

 

 

 

 

 

Here are the negative observations, in alphabetical order of the observers abbreviations (next page) :

 

ALY

02d 42' 20" E

48d 54' 04" N

100m

 

BEG

06d 48' 33" E

47d 05' 24" N

1031m

 

BER

06d 31' 47" E

46d 30' 54" N

389m

No occultation of duration >0.5 s

BNN

06d 26' 37" E

48d 20' 43" N

355m

Double station with LQC

CRM

09d 59' 30.3 E

45d 26' 14.2 N

94m

 

EBA

00d 04' 45" E

46d 00' 29" N

102m

CCD drift scan.

EMS

06d 08' E

46d 27' N

?

 

GJJ

19d 35' 39.5" E

45d 24' 04.7" N

86m

 

IMV

39d 02' 32" E

45d 00' 44" N

40m

 

JPR

02d 58' 0" E

50d 29' 04" N

10m

 

LPG

01d 39' 57" E

49d 08' 17" N

43m

 

LQC

06d 26' 37" E

48d 20' 43" N

355m

Double station with BNN

MKM

07d 50' 40.5" E

43d 49' 40.1" N

13m

Visual ; Interruption

 00:47:07.00 - 00:48:03.01 UT

MRX

09d 11' 51" E

48d 47' 00" N

350m

 

MZC

07d 45' 00" E

48d 34' 48" N

?

 

OYM

, LEH

07d 25' 19" E

47d 21' 11" N

515m

CCD drift scan.

PHR

07d 22' 02" E

49d 04' 01" N

270m

 

RGE

01d 45' 05" E

48d 49' 15" N

102m

No occultation of duration >0.2 s

RYN

06d 08' E

46d 27' N

?

 

SZL

19d 40'34.7" E

46d 54' 46.9" N

130m

 

UBN

08d 46'24" E

49d 21' 00" N

134m

No occultation of duration >0.2 s

 

BNN and LQC missed the northern limb of asteroid by only 7 km; OYM and LEH the southern one by 4 km. They  were "shepherd" observers, a few km north and south of the shadow.

                Countries abbreviations are :

(BE) = Belgium,  (BY) = Belarus,  (CH) = Switzerland,  (CZ) = Czech Republic,  (DE) = Germany,  (ES) = Spain,
(FR) = France, (HR) = Croatia, (HU) = Hungary, (IT) = Italy,  (NL) = the Netherlands, (PL) = Poland,
(RU) = Russia,  (SK) = Slovak Republic,  (UA) = Ukraine,  (UK) = United Kingdom,     (YU) = Yugoslavia.


 

                                                    OBSERVERS’S  ABBREVIATION  LIST

 

Abbr.

Name

From ® To

 

Abbr.

Name

From ® To

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ALY

Arnaud  Leroy

FR

 

JSB

Juraj  Szobi

SK

AZO

Tibor  Asztalos

HU

 

KKA

Katarina  Kerekesova

SK

BAT

Karl-Ludwig  Bath

DE

 

KZJ

Julius Koza

SK

BDR

Eberhard  Bredner

DE®FR

 

LEH

Hubert  Lehmann

CH

BDW

Leszek  Benedyktowicz

PL®SK

 

LFU

Didier  Lefoulon

FR

BEG

Gert  Behrend

CH

 

LPG

Lionel  Parmeggiani

FR

BER

Raoul  Behrend

CH

 

LQC

Céline  Lurquin

BE®FR

BNN

Roland  Boninsegna

BE®FR

 

MHL

Marc  Michel

FR

BTH

Jerome  Berthier

FR

 

MKM

Pawel  Maksym

PL®IT

CJV

Vaclav  Cejka

CZ®DE

 

MLT

Christophe  Marlot

FR

CKV

Vratislav  Cillik

SK

 

MNK

Jan  Manek

CZ®DE

CMI

Meier  Christof

DE

 

MRX

Harald  Marx

DE

COF

Francois  Colas

FR

 

MSI

Jan  Masiar

SK

CRM

Claudio  Cremaschini

IT

 

MSO

Milos  Sochan

SK

CSE

Cedric   Sire

FR

 

MSS

Stefan  Messer

DE

CSM

Marek  Cesal

CZ®DE

 

MZC

Boris  Malzac

FR

DGE

Patrick  Degrelle

FR

 

NBL

Wim  Nobel
NL®FR

DHJ

Jean-Luc  Duhamel

FR

 

NYZ