Re: Ockultationer (och tidsbestämning av dessa)
Posted: 2012-01-19 17:31:22
En sak som jag inte tidigare har uppmärksammat, är att observationen av asteroidockultationen 1958 nyligen (2009) har ifrågasatts. Brad Timerson skriver:
“The first observed asteroidal occultation involved 2 Pallas recorded photoelectrically in 1961 (Sinvhal et al. 1962). An earlier claim of a visual observation of an occultation by 3 Juno in 1958 in Malmo, Sweden is doubtful (Taylor 1962). The path of that occultation passed over the Arctic Ocean north of Greenland, according to an ephemeris calculated from backwards propagation of accurate modern orbital elements of Juno and the position of the star in 1958 computed with the Tycho 2 catalog data. The closest approach at Malmo was 3”, whereas astrometric observations of Juno made that year agree with the new ephemeris to within their 1” accuracy. The magnitude drop of the 1958 occultation was less then 0.5, which would be difficult to observe visually.”
Googla på “The first observed asteroidal occultation” så hittar ni Timersons artikel som pdf eller HTML.
Jag har inga åsikter alls om Junos bana vid den aktuella tidpunkten, men tycker kanske att passusen om magnitudavtagandet inte är alldeles relevant. Även om magnituden skulle ha avtagit med endast 0.4 eller 0.3 magnituder (dvs mindre än 0.5) så är en sådan förändring relativt enkel att uppfatta visuellt.
Mvh
Hans Bengtsson
“The first observed asteroidal occultation involved 2 Pallas recorded photoelectrically in 1961 (Sinvhal et al. 1962). An earlier claim of a visual observation of an occultation by 3 Juno in 1958 in Malmo, Sweden is doubtful (Taylor 1962). The path of that occultation passed over the Arctic Ocean north of Greenland, according to an ephemeris calculated from backwards propagation of accurate modern orbital elements of Juno and the position of the star in 1958 computed with the Tycho 2 catalog data. The closest approach at Malmo was 3”, whereas astrometric observations of Juno made that year agree with the new ephemeris to within their 1” accuracy. The magnitude drop of the 1958 occultation was less then 0.5, which would be difficult to observe visually.”
Googla på “The first observed asteroidal occultation” så hittar ni Timersons artikel som pdf eller HTML.
Jag har inga åsikter alls om Junos bana vid den aktuella tidpunkten, men tycker kanske att passusen om magnitudavtagandet inte är alldeles relevant. Även om magnituden skulle ha avtagit med endast 0.4 eller 0.3 magnituder (dvs mindre än 0.5) så är en sådan förändring relativt enkel att uppfatta visuellt.
Mvh
Hans Bengtsson