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Re: Aldebaran occultation
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2017 Mar 5, 12:19 -0800
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2017 Mar 5, 12:19 -0800
On 2017-03-04 22:48, Alexandre Eremenko wrote: > The moment of disappearance I timed as March 5, 3:56:48 (GMT) > > 40d27.2'N, 86d55.8'W > IC 0 > T=32 > P=29.8 In occultations the meteorological conditions may be disregarded since refraction has equal effect on the star and the contact point on the limb. My Lunar4 program says Aldebaran is .02′ inside the Moon's limb at that time. It puts the occultation 4 seconds earlier. http://home.earthlink.net/~s543t-24dst/lunar3/
