Stellar occultation prediction by rfrench@wellesley.edu Sat Jun 24 20:14:42 2023 target : Saturn target radius (km) : 60268.00 C/A epoch : 2048-10-17T22:18:01.360 Event type : PgtRgt : Saturn occs: geocentric, topocentric : Ring occs: geocentric, topocentric Gaia source ID : 4078430987860855552 2Mass ID (if available) : 18420029-2243576 ICRS Star Coord at Epoch: 18h 42m 00.28937s -22:43:57.82449s RUWE (>1.4 is poor) : 0.84 K magnitude : 9.383 G magnitude : 13.040 RP magnitude : 12.012 BP magnitude : 14.079 DUPflag : 0 Distance (au) : 10.239 f0 (km) : 0.000 g0 (km) : 0.000 skyplane vel. (km/s) : 17.24 Sun-Target sep (deg) : 75.14 Sun-Moon sep (deg) : 58.57 B (ring opening deg) : 25.87 PA of pole (deg) : 6.25 # a(km) ring ------------------------------ 1 74490.6 C (IER) 2 91984.7 B (IER) 3 117571.2 B (OER) 4 122050.4 A (IER) 5 133423.3 Encke (IEG) 6 133744.9 Encke (OEG) 7 136774.4 A (OER) 8 140461.0 F ring Observable events with sun below -5 deg and altitude above 5 deg unblocked by planet Obs Location lat Elon Rings I Planet Rings E Observed Events Interval OEcode --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PIC Pic du Midi 42.9 0.1 | | | | |PnnRnn PAL Palomar Mt (20 33.4 243.1 | | | | |PnnRnn PMO Purple Mtn Obs 32.1 118.8 | | | | |PnnRnn KPNO Kitt Peak Natl 32.0 248.4 | | | | |PnnRnn MCD McDonald Obs. 30.7 256.0 | | | | |PnnRnn TEN Teide Obs./Ten 28.3 343.5 |+ + + + + + | + | |OCT 17 20:53 - OCT 17 21:36|PinRin IRTF Mauna Kea/IRTF 19.8 204.5 | | | | |PnnRnn KAV Kavalur Observ 12.6 78.8 | | | | |PnnRnn RIO Rio de Janeiro -22.9 316.8 | | + + | + + + + + + + |OCT 17 21:31 - OCT 18 00:34|PieRne ESO European South -29.3 289.3 | | | + + + + + + + |OCT 17 23:35 - OCT 18 00:32|PnnRne AAT Siding Spring -31.3 149.1 | | | | |PnnRnn SAAO So. Afr. Astro -32.4 20.8 |+ + + + + + | + | |OCT 17 20:42 - OCT 17 21:32|PinRin MSO Mt. Stromlo Ob -35.3 149.0 | | | | |PnnRnn