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Centaur (8405) Asbolus will occult the very faint star UCAC4 655-043695 on 2025 Oct 3 across Europe with a max. duration of 7.3 s. 13 stations have already joined the observation campaign.

Prediction by ERC Lucky Star project:
https://lesia.obspm.fr/lucky-star/occ.php?p=143947

Read about this interesting object in Journal for Occultation Astronomy 2016-03:
https://www.iota-es.de/JOA/JOA2016_3.pdf

Good luck for your observation!

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IOTA European Section 3d ago

Congratulations to P. Nosal and J. Kubánek for their positive observations of the stellar occultation by Centaur (8405) Asbolus last night.
Two negative observations were made by A. Marciniak and J. Mánek.
Unfortunately the weather in western Europe was bad so many stations were clouded out.

It is the first observed stellar occultation by this interesting object!

Details here:
https://cloud.occultwatcher.net/event/1736-8405-91965-650573-U043695

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