North American Asteroidal Occultation Program

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

North American Asteroidal Occultation Results

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Report your Observations

Report Form Templates

Predictions

Important IOTA Pages

Other Web Links

Steve Preston's Page

Derek Breit's Page

David Dunham's Page

Steve Messner's Page

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

Australia/New Zealand

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

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

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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