North American Asteroidal Occultation Program

Updated Wednesday, August 18, 2010

 

UTC Date and Time

 

Star Catalog Comparison Requests

updated August 16, 2010

August 20 Tiflis August 29 Winchester Sept 2 Aspasia  
August 20 Eunomia August 30 Siegena Sept 3 Gaussia  
August 21 Psyche August 31 Bella Sept 5 Pickeringia  

 

Miscellaneous Files

Aug. 21 Psyche Pre-Point Charts (10 Mb Zipfile)  
Psyche Pre-Point Star Lists:  Dallas/Ft. Worth area     Washington, DC area  

Asteroidal and Grazing Occultations - NE USA - IOTA Meeting

   WWVB-based video time inserter by John Wright   

 

North American Coordinators

Excel    Text    Map

North American Asteroidal Occultation Results

2006      2007      2008      2009     2010

Report your Observations

Report Form Templates

Text Form

 

Predictions Important IOTA Pages

Other Web Links

 

Steve Preston's Page

Derek Breit's Page

David Dunham's Page

Steve Messner's Page

OccultWatcher

Occultations of Bright Stars

(Denis Denissenko)

 

 

 

IOTA Administrative Page

 

IOTA Lunar Occultations Page

 

2009 IOTA Annual Meeting in Orlando

 

2008 IOTA Annual Meeting

2007 IOTA Annual Meeting

 

Euraster

Australia/New Zealand

Japan

Latin America

(English)

Worldwide Homepage

 

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

 

OCCULT4

Occultation Prediction Software

by Dave Herald

 

Occular 4.0 (11 Mb ZIP file)

(redirects you to download on Worldwide homepage)

 

Occultation LiMovie Analysis Routine

ReadMeGuide (text file)

 

 

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

 

 

Powerpoint Presentation to

N. Virginia Astronomy Club

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

 

Richard Nugent's Solar Eclipse Summary

 

A Trio of Well-Observed Asteroidal

Occultations in 2008

by Brad Timerson, et. al.

Minor Planet Bulletin, 2009 July-Sept.

pp. 98-100

 

 

 

 

 

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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