Observer: Richard Nolthenius
Location: On Cactus Flat Rd, about 10 miles east of Big Bear Lake, at 5900 ft elevation. This is 0.13 path widths south of the predicted northern limit, as of the latest updated path.
The star was 8.6 magnitude and the skies were clean, promising good data. But about 20 minutes before the event, a cloud was created when standing wave formed off of Mt. San Gorgonio about 15 miles to the south, in the direction of the star. The star was on the southern ragged edge of this cloud but still visible through the clouds. The cloud thickened as the event neared, with moments when it was invisible on the LCD screen of the camcorder. During the event, the clouds were at their thickest, but on careful playback the star was still visible. It turned out that observers as far south as near the centerline had a definite miss, and the true path shifted south by about 0.5 path widths, so there was clearly a miss at my station. The tape was overwritten for the Angelina occultation 2 nights later, but none of the SoCal observers reported any secondary events.
The IOTA report on this and the other California asteroid occultations associated with the 2004 Annual IOTA Meeting are here.