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
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Pre-Point Charts (zip) Additional Info (PPT) |
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Miscellaneous Files and Links
| D. Dunham's Mid-Atlantic Occultation Summary | D. Dunham's Graze Information for 2011 and 2012 |
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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) |
The Index of Worldwide Asteroidal Occultation Reports
compiled by Hayato Watanabe
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North American Asteroidal Occultation Results |
Report your Observations |
| Predictions | Important IOTA Pages |
Other Web Links |
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Steve Preston's Predictions Page
Derek Breit's Worldwide Interactive Maps, Stations and Pre-Point Star Lists
(Denis Denissenko)
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2011 IOTA Annual Meeting Information Special Page for Antiope Occultation - July 19, 2011
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Worldwide Asteroidal Occultation Resource Page
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| 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
The IOTA Occultation Observer's Manual
FREE Software Downloads
Occultation Prediction Software by Dave Herald
Occultation Planning Software by Hristo Pavlov
(highly recommended planning
software, informs you of
software for measuring occultation light curves
software for measuring occultation light curves and photometry
(redirects you to download on Worldwide homepage) Occular 4.0 Installation Guide (text) Occular 4.0 Installation Guide (detailed - Word file)
video editing software
video editing software
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The "Mighty-Mini" Videocamera System by Scotty Degenhardt
Timing Using CCD Drift Scanning
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
( 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
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by David Dunham - April 13, 2008 ( 5 Mb)
Occultations presentation to the 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
----------------------------------------------------- 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
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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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