Where and how to look up the coordinates and magnitude of the star in this occultation prediction?
I believe this is a misinterpretation of this tweet: https://twitter.com/Alex_Parker/status/870169900970639360

If you look at the reply chain, it starts with https://twitter.com/Alex_Parker/status/870168057032921088 where Alex Parker states "Also, last night while we were packing up I took a very quick image of the Carina Nebula with one of our #MU69occ cameras."

The tweet in question states "This is what Omega Centauri looks like after just 500 milliseconds of exposure with one of the #MU69occ cameras."

In other words, Alex Parker was taking images of various clusters with the camera he plans to use for the MU69occ event. The image targets have nothing to do with the occultation itself.

I also went to https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi and took a geocentric view of "2014MU69" for the month of June and it confirms this object is nowhere near Centaurus.

EDIT: I emailed Amanda M. Zangari (azangari@boulder.swri.edu) and her response was:


Hi Barry,

I do not know where the star numbers come from.

Gaia IDs for each of the stars are here:

http://www.boulder.swri.edu/MU69_occ/gaiainfo.html