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Occultation of 4UC 270-119037 by
(10199) Chariklo.

After the discovery of a ring system by Braga-Ribas, F. et al. Nature 13155(2014) the upcoming occultation may draw your attention. The object is of enormous interest for research. Occultation astronomy is the most powerful technique to gain further knowledge about this little ring system.

On the 4th of August an occultation of a bright star (14th mag) will take place for southern Africa and Reunion.The event will be at 21h36min UTC for Namibia.

Keep in mind, that the occultation has to be observed about 10 minutes before and after, to ensure, that 1) enough data have been collected for noise evaluation of your data set and 2) that possible other rings (undetected up to now) may occult the star.

The following finder charts are base on the UCAC4 catalog.

Generated by XEPHEM software.

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Infos of the occulted star you find here

Overview of the Chariklos shadow track over the world:
Prediction by the RIO team and B. Sicardy, et.al.