IOTA/IOTA-ES occultation info for
events concerning Jupiter's satellite events on November 4/5, 2000
Summary
In the night of November 4/5, 2000 a 9.8 mag star TYC HIP 20994 = PPM 93561 = SAO 76633 will be occulted by planet Jupiter for observers in Europe, Africa, NE part of South America and NE North America. Edwin Goffin's nominal prediction shows the situation. The event itself is not very favourable as the star is rather faint compared to to Jupiter.
However during check of this event I have identified 5 new events for the target star, when it will be occulted by 3 of his tiny moons. These events are listed below. Namely the two Metis events are rather favourable concerning their path location crossing populated areas, but duration of these events is only around 1 second (!!), so video recording is highly recommended.
Occultation by Thebe (J-XIV)
This event takes place in Indian Ocean south of South Africa between 23:18:30 UT and 23:20:45 UT on November 4, 2000.
South Africa observers may give a try.
Shadow in path is shown for every 10 seconds. Duration of event ~3 second.
Position of star wrt. Jupiter at the moment of occultation is shown here.
In the picture is also Ganymedes at lower right and Callisto at lower left.
Moreover dimmings by Jupiter's ring can be also seen, for European observers from ~23:20 UT on Nov 4,
till star's D behind Jupiter's disk at ~0:29 UT on Nov 5, 2000.
Same can be possibly seen after star emerges for European observers from Jupiter's disk ~3:19 UT till ~4:30 UT.
These times are unsure by many minutes as I have only rough info.
All calculations and graphs were prepared in GUIDE7 program of Bill Gray, which produces ephemeris for these tiny moonlets within 0.1" accuracy compared to JPL Horizons system. However absolute accuracy of the JPL Horizons system is unknown to me, I hope it is ~0.2".
Data for the target star: * name: HIP 20994 = SAO 76633 = PPM 76633 = TYC 1277-01320-1 * constellation: Taurus * J2000 position [h,m,s; o,',"]: 04h 30m 08.005s; +20o 52' 35.77" * position source: Hipparcos * estimated accuracy ["]: 0.04" (0.03", 0.02") * V mag [mag]: 9.84 * B-V [mag]: +0.31 * remarks: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan Manek Stefanik Observatory Private : Petrin 205 Werichova 950 118 46 Praha 1 152 00 Praha 5 - Barrandov |_|_| Czech Republic Czech Republic / \ Internet : jmanek@mbox.vol.cz |-O-O-| --------------------------------------------------------------------U---U---
