2006.12.10 UT
0.35m SCT/ ST10XME CCD/ R band / 2x2 bin
mid exposure =07:07:44 UT
Normally I do not follow occultations. Minor planet 1348 ( V~ 14.2) was being followed for the purpose of obtaining its lightcurve for a period determination. It has already been reported however I was seeking to confirm the result. I was amazed at the seredipitous find when I started analyzing the data. This was a nice surprise especially considering that a good portion of data would have to be rejected from the photometry series due to the bright star in the path and intermitent clouds near the end of the observing run would limit the lightcurve precision. Note that GSC 1310:1940 is saturating, producing the short vertical spike which is called "blooming" in CCD speak. The image was cropped to conserve space but the native 2x2 resolution was maintained yielding a scale of 1.2 arc-secs /pixel. The ST10 was self guided and a temperature compensating focuser was utilized to maintain focus.
I selected 50 sequential images ( each was 60 sec long ) and composed a short avi. ( 4.3 mb)
http://www.mikefleenor.com/mp/1348michel-gsc1310-1940-occult-20061210-sm.avi
If the link fails to launch the animation, save it to your hard drive
and open with Windows Media Player.