The occultation of a star by asteroid Desiderata - 12 November 2022

Successful night tonight. I was able to detect a 0.3 mag drop asteroidal occulatation of the target star by the asteroid Desiderata. Combined occultation brightness was only 13.0 mag. It required a long exposure time.

The map with predicted path:


Light curve from video record.
The begin of occultation was at 17:50:28.624 UTC +/- 1.114s; end at 17:50:38.565 UTC +/- 1.114s. Total duration is 9.941s +/-1.726s.






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