[vsnet-chat 3498] Re: delta Scorpii : Lunar Occultations table

["Stan Walker" <astroman@voyager.co.nz>]

Hi John,

Yes, we observed a graze of Antares from a place called Glorit away back
then. The other Scorpius one preceded that so it may have been 1967 or even
1966. I think the Auckland Observatory was operating then - it opened in
March 1967 - so 1967 fits a bit better. I was younger and more enthusiastic
then!

Regards,
Stan


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Subject: [vsnet-chat 3495] Re: delta Scorpii : Lunar Occultations table


>
> Actually, if the expanding disc/shell/both/whatever manages to find
> enough old circumstellar material or interstellar material to lead to
> radio emissions, there's an occultation a month from Sept 2003 to Feb
> 2005 for anybody who happens to have a VLBI radio setup to hand...
>
> Stan Walker wrote:
>
> > Hi John,
> >
> > Just out of curiosity - did this star have a grazing occultaion about
1968?
> > It sounds vaguely familiar to something we observed from the Remuera
Golf
> > Course in Auckland about then.
>
> 'lo Stan
>
> there appears to have been an event in late Jan 1968 when delta Sco was
> within 15' of lunar disc centre, which sounds like a grazing occultation
> to me, but January doesn't smell right sun-position-wise to me [mid-time
> was 22.8 UT for example!].
>
> Maybe somebody else knows better.
>
> Other ones from roughly that part of the sky that seem to fit your
> timezone & could have been grazers are Deneb Algeidi [tail star in
> Capricornus] around 8h30m UT on 5/9/68 [UK sept _not_ US may].  There
> was one of Antares on 10/9/67 around noon UT which was 13' offcentre.
>
> Apparently there _was_ a bunch of lunar occultations of delta Sco in
> '67/'68 though... ...lets see, 2003,4 minus 1967,8 =  36 and a bit, or 2
> x 18 and a bit... ...that'd've pleased that Meton bloke ;)
>
> Cheers
>
> John
>

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