Around midnight on October 26 2008, a 51km asteroid known as (270) Anahita occulted a 10.5 magnitude star in the constellation Gemini for observers along a path across western Canada and Northwest USA, blocking starlight for a little over 10 seconds. This image, taken using a “drift scan” technique, shows a gap in the star trail of the target star (indicated by tick marks). The star’s identification is TYC 1880-01064-1.
