A 6 second occultation was recorded by Dean Hooper, using an SCT Telescope and Watec 910HX camera.

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Observers:
  1    D Hooper, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Discussion:

The circle above is plotted at the expected diameter of Caprera. With only one chord, it is not possible to tell if Dean was north or south of the centre line of the event The path appears to be to the south of the prediction. The circle has been plotted centred on the observed chord.

The figure below shows the Tangra light curve of the occultation.

Observational Data:

Observation details for MP ( 479 ) Caprera
By Star              UCAC4 380-159893
On 2017-05-04  at 14:33:02.0

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Observer   Dean Hooper
Location   Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Longitude  +145:05
Latitude   -37:59
Altitude   10 m
Datum      WGS84
Telescope SCT including Cass and Mak
Aperture   28 cm
Seeing     Slight flickering Thin cloud < 2 Low altitude target
Camera Type  Watec 910HX    PAL/CCIR      
Camera Delay 
Timing     GPS - time inserted Video with frame analysis
Disappearance  14:32:45.28
Reappearance   14:32:50.72
Comments: Light curve generation Tangra v3.6.7.  Time analysis AOTA v4.2.8.0 Gain reduced to 36dB to lessen bright background noise.