Rare Star/Asteroid Occultation to be Web-Cast Early Thur. Morning
In a rare occultation of a first-magnitude star, Regulus (magnitude
+1.35), in the Constellation Leo the Lion, will be obscured by the
Asteroid (163) Erigone Wednesday night / early Thursday morning (2014
March 20) at 2:07 a.m. EDT (6:07 Coordinated Universal Time). For people not in the prime viewing area, the event will be web-cast, live, on the Slooh robotic telescope web site.
Glenn A. Walsh, Project Director,