Scan of Hermione.
::Satourne::
Occultation of the TYCHO-2 1905 00864 star by the Hermione (121) asteroid
The original scan image can be downloaded. Observing location: Montastruc-La-Conseillère, South of France. Longitude 1 degree 36 minutes 48 secondes. Latitude : 43 degrees 43 minutes 12 secondes. Altitude : 198 meters.
This occultation took place on 17 February 2004. Clearly there was no occultation from my location.
Instrumentation and software
- 200 mm SC Telescope
- 6.3 Focal Reducer
- Audine KAF 401 camera
- Audela 1.2.3 software, Quick Scan tool
Scanning Data
- Scanning Width: 250 pixels
- Total Number of Lines: 6,000 lines
- 0,1 seconds per line
- Preprocessing applied to the final scan image: subtraction of the sky background
- Firstpix: 240 pixels
- Binning: 1 x 1
- Speed: 6200
Acquisition Process
- 23:25 h: running the script
- 23:29 h: stage 1
- 23:29:15 h: stage 2
- 23:29:30 h: stage 3
- 23:29:45 h: stage 4
- 23:36 h: stage 5
- 23:36:15 h: stage 6
- 23:36:30 h: stage 7
- 23:36:45 h: stage 8
Note: The acquisition script stopped on 23:36:45 h instead of 23:38 h.
Final scan image as a Jpeg (Hermione is on the right):