Dear all,

Sorry for the late notification. I have known about this for several days now. Currently there is a (now fading) microlens event ongoing that is well placed in the sky in Taurus and still reasonably bright. The event is known as TCP J05074264+2447555. Last night I imaged it with my Canon EOS 700D and William Optics ZenithStar 71 ED from my backyard. I estimate it was m=12.8 at the time and it will be around m=13 by now. The AAVSO have made finder charts available and it is very close to the open cluster NGC 1746 in Taurus. For instance, the B chart (FOV = 3 degrees) can be found here

https://www.aavso.org/apps/vsp/chart...ght&type=chart

My full frame image is

90s_microlens_resample.jpg

with the microlens about half way between the center and upper rim of the image. Sorry for the bad quality of the image. The Moon was less than 10 degrees away in the sky. A zoomed in crop is

90s_microlens.jpg

with the lens at the center of the crop to the lower left of the bright star.


Clear skies, Wouter