A possible 2 second occultation was recorded by Brian Loader, using video OSD technique.

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Observers:
  1    B Loader,Darfield,NZ
  2(P) Prediction, Personal

        

Discussion:

The circle above is plotted at the expected 30 km diameter of Fichte.

The figure below shows the Occular analysis light curve of the occultation.

The confidence level of 0% indicates that the very short dip of essntially 3 integration periods is probably noise. However the possibility of this being a real event still exists and so is being reported here. However because of the doubt it will be treated as a miss and will not be archived with MPC. In particular, the light curve does not exhibit a ‘flat bottomed – steep-sided’ light curve event.

Observational Data:

Observation details for MP ( 3475 ) Fichte
By Star              UCAC2 33147926
On 2011-09-15  at 08:29:28.0

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Observer   B. Loader
Location   Darfield,NZ
Longitude  +172:06
Latitude   -43:28
Altitude   210 m
Datum      WGS84
Telescope SCT including Cass and Mak
Aperture   25 cm
Seeing     Steady Clear
Camera Type  WAT120N        PAL/CCIR
Camera Delay 0.33
Timing     GPS - time inserted Video with frame analysis
Disappearance  08:28:37.5 (Probably spurious)
Reappearance   08:28:39.55 (Probably spurious)

Comments: This looked like an event in the monitor and on the light curve.
But it was about 50 seconds earlier than expected (prediction time error
+/- 14 seconds), so early by ca 3.5 x the predicted time error.

Occular analysis times haave been used in this report [jt].