The End Time Tribune

In the early morning hours of March 20, 2014, Erigone occulted the first-magnitude star Regulus as first predicted by A. Vitagliano in 2004. Regulus is about 78 light-years away from Earth and the brightest star in Leo and roughly the 21st brightest star in sky. This may be the best and brightest asteroid occultation ever predicted to occur over a populated area. Although Erigone never comes near Earth, as it passed in front of Regulus a shadow of approximately 107 kilometres (66 mi) moved across Nassau and Suffolk counties, all five boroughs of New York City and the Hudson River Valley, with the center of the predicted shadow path following a line roughly connecting New York City, White Plains, Newburgh, Oneonta, Rome and Pulaski before crossing into Canada near Belleville and North Bay, Ontario. The shadow was appreciably larger than Erigone itself, because Regulus was near the horizon at that time. Observers in the shadow path might have seen the star wink out for as long as 14 seconds.