Thanks to the 29 students and 39 adults from RECON who participated in a coordinated campaign to observe (176) Iduna on November 9 UT. Below is a preliminary chord profile from the event provided by the IOTA community. For more information, visit http://www.asteroidoccultation.com/observations/Results/.
Asteroid Profiile for (176) Iduna (credit: IOTA)
Combined Iduna results are available here.
Where will you be this Friday evening at 10:07 Pacific Standard Time? The full RECON network is gearing up to observe an occultation by (176) Iduna!
Visit our campaign event page at the following link: (176) Iduna
Congratulations to the IOTA community for their tremendous effort in capturing a binary Trojan asteroid on October 21, 2013. Shown below are preliminary profiles for Patroclus and its companion Menoetius.
Preliminary profile of binary Trojans asteroid
Visit http://www.asteroidoccultation.com/observations/Results/ for more details!
NOTE: No Diagonal used
At a very civilized hour Friday evening November 1, 2013, the asteroid (128) Nemesis is predicted to occult 2UCAC 30123334 (Sat. 2 Nov. 4:01 UT). In Plumas County (Quincy, Greenville, and Portola) we are planning to use it as a warm-up for Iduna a week later. We are near the southern edge pf the predicted shadow path so this event also presents an opportunity for the RECON communities to our north.
The magnitude of the star is actually less than that of the asteroid so the light curve will be shallow. Full details of the occultation are online at
www.asteroidoccultation.com/2013_11/1102_128_30282.htm
The field is mildly challenging because it is relatively sparse and faint. 
Below is a chord diagram from observations collected on October 17 for (339) Dorothea by RECON team members in Gardnerville, Carson City, Reno, Quincy, and Greenville and other contributing IOTA members. Great job all!
Thanks to Jim Bean, Jerry Bardecker, Marc Buie, and the entire IOTA community who were able to contribute to the recent Patroclus campaign! We look forward to upcoming results from last Sunday’s observation of this binary Trojan asteroid.
Looking forward, the next official RECON observation will be (176) Iduna on Friday evening, November 8, just after 10PM Pacific Standard Time! 
