Jupiter occults star on March 3, 2005

Its a big thing far away occulting a small thing very very far away. Given the angels I'd imagine it is visible anywhere on the planet.

You're probably right Al... but wrong on the spelling!!

The width of the path covers all of Europe + N. Africa.

I thought a webcam may be at its limits regarding the limiting magnitude of 10. Of course it depends on the size of telescope. A CCD camera cooled to -30 C at 0.1 sec would reduce brightness of Jupiter and capture stars ingress. You need to do a practice run ie. recording Jupiter separately at some short exposure duration and a star of about 10 mag in some other field.

I will be using a StellaCam at 30 fps for this event.

Eamonn Ansbro

I wouldn't rule out a webcam. If you turn up the brightenss and gain, you'd be surprised at what you might capture. I know that Jupiter's moons are easy to capture with the webcam & an 8" and that's with keeping to minimum gain and brightness only midway.
I think it's certainly worth giving it a try, especially on a large scope. Might be a good idea to keep as much of Jupiter outside the shot for as long as possible i.e. track the star, not the planet so as not to wash out the image.

you may be right Michael
I've got 8-9 star (just!), so we'll see about mag 10 , think positive, but I dont expect much.