Fourteen seconds was all viewers were able to see of an asteroid rock going over the twenty-second brightest star early Thursday morning.
The 163 erigone rock passed by the star known as Regulus, but clouds and rain in the area prevented.
Clouds and rain appear to have interrupted viewers from seeing an asteroid rock go over the universe's twenty-second brightest star.
"It's miserable," Bob Berman, an astronomer said during the live stream of the event Space.com reported. "It's absolutely miserable. The weather is as bad as it possibly could be. It's really a double shame because it's been crystal clear for days. Isn't that the way it goes?"
The sighting was visible in Connecticut, upstate New York, New Jersey, and Ontario.
"Folks have been scattered up and down the path from the New York City area ... on into Canada," Ted Blank, of the International Occultation Timing Association, said during the webcast Space.com reported. "Everybody was hoping against hope that this front would speed up and clear out in time, but at the moment, I haven't seen any sign that anybody got any positive occultation observations," Blank said in the statement.
"By having people along the occultation path and timing exactly when that happens, we find out not just the shape of the asteroid, but whether it might have a little companion," Berman said in the statement. "We already know of cases where an asteroid is a twosome, where they travel through space with a little companion ... So, it was very important astronomy that was being attempted," Berman said in the statement.
Astronomers and Slooh Community Observatory staff were expected to use information from the event to further their research Fox News reported.
The spectacle, which doesn't happen often, was available through a live stream on Slooh's website shortly before 2 a.m. Thursday.
