ESOP 2018

For the first oservation the region near Monte Cassino was elected. Its beween Rome and Naples. Unfortunately the weather predictions were unsure.  

15 min before the occultation the sky gets clear.
 

There was a short but positive signal with an uncommon long fading. Cause the small optic the framerate was 3,125 fps.

The fading was longer than the occultation of 2 s.

The star has only 11mag. The spectral class is M0. But at 11 mag a red giant is to small for a significant surface-fading.

More suitable is a flat borderline.

View of Damit at the occulatation time:

The profie 1:40 h before the occultation fits better to shadow path. Maybe there is cumulative time error in the DAMIT-dataset. 

Other observations would be usefull. Unfortunately there were no other known observers active in that night.

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