North American Asteroidal Occultation Resources

and IOTA Meetings

Updated Saturday, January 14, 2012

 

UTC Date and Time

(do NOT use this time for timing occultations)

 

Star Catalog Comparison Requests

updated January 14, 2012

19 Jan 2012 Agamemnon

Pre-Point Stars  Station Sort

Pre-Point Charts (zip)

Additional Info (PPT)

       
30 Jan 2012  Brouwer        
         
         

 

 

Miscellaneous Files and Links

D. Dunham's Mid-Atlantic Occultation Summary D. Dunham's Graze Information for 2011 and 2012

Quadea, the Incredible Shrinking Asteroid

presentation to APL Astronomy Club by David Dunham

Interactive maps for North American Lunar grazing occultations

(Brad Timerson's Graze page)
(Includes forms & procedures for reporting lunar total and grazing occultation observations)

 

The Index of Worldwide Asteroidal Occultation Reports

compiled by Hayato Watanabe

 

Primary North American Coordinator

Backup Coordinators

North American Asteroidal Occultation Results

2006      2007      2008      2009     2010   2011   2012

Report your Observations

Report Form Templates

Text Form

 

Predictions Important IOTA Pages

Other Web Links

 

Steve Preston's Predictions Page

 

Derek Breit's Worldwide Interactive Maps,

Stations and Pre-Point Star Lists

 

David Dunham's Page

Steve Messner's Page

Occultations of Bright Stars

(Denis Denissenko)

 

 

 

IOTA Administrative Page

IOTA Lunar Occultations Page

 

2011 IOTA Annual Meeting Information

Special Page for Antiope Occultation - July 19, 2011

 

2010 IOTA Annual Meeting

2009 IOTA Annual Meeting

2008 IOTA Annual Meeting

2007 IOTA Annual Meeting

 

 

Worldwide Asteroidal Occultation Resource Page

 

Euraster

Australia/New Zealand

Japan

Latin America

(English)

 

 

Downloads Miscellaneous Files Publications

 

An Occultation Observer Primer  (text file)

 

An Occultation Timing Primer Word  HTML

 

Occultations by Asteroid Satellites

 

Lunar Occultations of Comets  Word    Text

 

Chasing the Shadow:

The IOTA Occultation Observer's Manual

 

 

FREE Software Downloads

 

OCCULT4

Occultation Prediction Software

by Dave Herald

 

OccultWatcher

Occultation Planning Software by Hristo Pavlov

(highly recommended planning software, informs you of
  asteroidal and TNO occultations visible from your
  site or region; IOTA's main tool for coordinating
  observations to optimally cover event paths)

 

LiMovie

software for measuring occultation light curves

 

Tangra

software for measuring occultation light curves and photometry

 

Occular 4.0 (11 Mb ZIP file)

(redirects you to download on Worldwide homepage)

Occular 4.0 Installation Guide (text)

Occular 4.0 Installation Guide (detailed - Word file)

 

VirtualDub

video editing software

 

AviSynth

video editing software

 

 

The "Mighty-Mini" Videocamera System

by Scotty Degenhardt

 

Timing Using CCD Drift Scanning

Drift Scan Description

 

The Effects of Optical Miniaturization on Occultations

by Scott Degenhardt (webpage)

 

My Metis Meteor  by Scott Degenhardt

 

Multi-Station Occultation Observing (7.5 Mb PP)

by Scotty Degenhardt

 

Scotty Degenhardt's Time Code

Procedures with the Canon ZR

( 850kb ZIP file)

 

How Scotty Degenhardt Sets Up Multiple Remote Stations

(16 kb ZIP file)

 

How to Download and Reduce Asteroid Occultation  DV Tapes

Richard Nolthenius

 

WWVB-based video time inserter

John Wright

 

DVD issues and WWVB time synchronization

John Wright (updated 14 Nov 2011)

 

The Emerson DVD Player  John Wright

 

JXD990-8000 Video Recorder Manual

 

 

Powerpoint Presentation to

N. Virginia Astronomy Club

by David Dunham - April 13, 2008 ( 5 Mb)

 

Occultations presentation to the

Rochester (NY) Astronomy Club

by Brad Timerson (17Mb PPT zipfile)

 

Richard Nugent's Solar Eclipse Summary

 

----------  Minor Planet Bulletin articles  ----------

A Trio of Well-Observed Asteroidal

Occultations in 2008

by Brad Timerson, et. al.

Minor Planet Bulletin, 2009 July-Sept.

pp. 98-100

 

Occultations by 81 Terpsichore and 694 Ekard

in 2009 at Different Rotational Phase Angles

by Brad Timerson, et. al.

Minor Planet Bulletin, 2010 Oct-Dec

pp. 140-142

 

Several Well-Observed Asteroidal Occultations in 2010

by Brad Timerson, et. al.

Minor Planet Bulletin, 2011 Oct-Dec

pp. 200-204

 

----------  JDSO New Double Star articles  ----------

(select Archives)

Vol 6, No 2   1049 Feodosia

Vol 7, No 2   675 Ludmilla

Vol 7, No 3   790 Pretoria

Vol 7, No 3   160 Una

Pending

336 Lacadiera

695 Bella

 

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Review of the 29 May Eudora Occultation

(by D. Dunham)

 

 Gravic Astronomy Workshop - Saturday, October 8th

(proposed agenda)

Summary of the Astronomy Workshop at Gravic

 

 

Basic Information on Occultations (Eclipses) and the July 19th occultation by Antiope

David Dunham

 

 

Important Information Regarding Star Catalog Comparisons

provided by Dave Herald from the OCCULT Help files

Updated (July 21, 2010) Information

Word Document (for printing)

 

North American weather satellite image

 

Western North America weather satellite image

 

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