A 20 second occultation was recorded by Dave Herald, using an SCT Telescope and Watec 910BD camera.

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Observers:
  1    D Herald, Murrumbateman, New South Wales, Australia 
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Discussion:

With only one chord, it is not possible to tell if Dave was north or south of the centre line of the event. The DAMIT model has been plotted centred on the observed chord.

Observational Data:

Observation details for MP ( 116 ) Sirona
By Star              TYC 6230-00963-1 
On 2017-03-30  at 14:38:15.0

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Observer   Dave Herald
Location   Murrumbateman, NSW, Australia
Longitude  +148:59
Latitude   -34:57
Altitude   594 m
Datum      WGS84
Telescope SCT including Cass and Mak
Aperture   40 cm
Seeing     Slight flickering Broken cloud 
Camera Type  Watec 910BD    PAL/CCIR      
Camera Delay 
Timing     GPS - time inserted Video with frame analysis
Disappearance  14:37:43.90
Reappearance   14:38:03.85
Comments: Cloud from cyclone Debbie was not enough to completely block it out!  Report prepopulated by IOTA Reporting Add-in for OW ver.1.8