From: David Dunham [dunham@starpower.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 11:36 PM
To: planoccult@aula.com
Cc: Bruno.Sicardy@obspm.fr; astern@swri.edu; Dunham, David; EXT Young, Leslie
Subject: Fwd: [IOTAoccultations] Pluto Occultation -Positive
This is well north of Wolfgang Beisker's observation from
Tasmania and seems to indicate that the path shifted north.
Probably there were other successful observations from
elsewhere in southern Australia.

David D.
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From: Dave Gee <dave4gee@yahoo.com.au>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:28:56 +1000 (EST)
Subject: [IOTAoccultations] Pluto Occultation -Positive

G'day Everyone,

I observed a positive event on the 12th June 2006,
where Pluto occulted 15th mag. 2UCAC 26039859.

I have done some photometry to the best of my ability
using AIP4WIN and I have uploaded some screen shots.
The images are a bit noisy, which is not surprising
really as it was at the limit of my equipment.

Note: the graph is drawn what I'd call upside down, so
flip it over in your mind.

http://www4.tpgi.com.au/users/daveg/Pluto1621to1627.jpg

Details
25cm Newtonian on GEM (homemade)
Meade Deep Sky Imager Pro
1 second exposures but the rate was one every 1.4
seconds by the time it got to the PC

33°39'52"S
150°38'28"E
286M Alt

Time - My PC showed the same time as the KIWI OSD
which I had running to be sure.

I'm unsure what the story is with the central peak and
the D and R are not instant. To that end, I'm
forwarding my FITS files to Lowell Observatory, maybe
they can use them better than I.

There were others in the field all over Australia and
New Zealand but I'm not sure of the results.

Regards
Dave Gault
AUSTRALIA