Worldwide Asteroidal Occultation Observations and Resources

updated 2024 February 11

 

Primary IOTA Occultations Webpage

Primary IOTA Occultations Observing Information Website

 

Results of Observations

Australia/New Zealand

RASNZ Occultation Manual

IOTA/ East Asia

Europe

(Europe through 2022)

Japan

Results page

North American Results page

 

North American Asteroidal Occultation Resources page

IOTA - Central & South America

 

LIADA (Spanish)

REA Occultation Section (Portuguese)

 

The Index of Worldwide Asteroidal Occultation Reports

compiled by Hayato Watanabe

 

Online Resources for Asteroidal Occultation Observations

 

Prediction

Resources

What is available at these links?

Reporting

Observations

How are these Forms used?

Equipment

What do I need to make observations?

FREE Software

How can these programs help

with my observations?

 

Steve Preston's Predictions Website

 

Derek Breit's Worldwide Interactive Maps,

Stations and Pre-Point Star Lists

(includes link to IOTA's FREE Observers' Manual -

also available to the right)

 

Occultations by Kuiper Belt and

Trans-Neptunian Objects

MIT Predictions

Paris Observatory Predictions

(occultations for different years start about five sections below top)

 

EAON - Jean Schwaenen

 

All About Occult's Star Catalog Comparison Routine

Dave Herald (2.1 Mb PPT)

 

Update to Occult's Star Catalog Comparisons

 

 

Grazing Occultations for 2016

Riedel/Dunham

 

Occultations by Asteroids - 2017

(Edwin Goffin)

ReadMe file

 

List of Occultations by Asteroids - 2018

(Edwin Goffin)

Information about Occultations

Use the Region Number

(first column of above text file)

to find maps for each event

Regions:  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8

 

Go to YOUR world region link (above) to get Report Forms designed for your use.

 

IOTA Report Forms

These Excel Forms are for use in

North America and Australia/New Zealand ONLY

 

Text Form

 

 

FREE IOTA Observers' Manual

Chasing the Shadow:

The IOTA Occultation Observer's Manual

 

 

IOTA-VTI

 

The "Mighty-Mini" video camera system by Scotty Degenhardt

Text document   Larger Picture

Go to the North American page for MUCH more information on Scotty's systems!

 

Video Astrometry

by Dave Herald

 

JXD990 - 8000 Video Recorder Manual

 

Important:  KIWI-VTI Startup Procedures

by Dave Gault

 

KIWI-OSD Users' Manual

Dave Gault's Note

 

KIWI-OSD Firmware Upgrade

 

 

OCCULT 4

 

OccultWatcher

(occultation planning software)

 

VirtualDub              Avisynth  

User Webpage (NEW!)

LiMovie (latest version 0.9.97.3)

LiMovie (version 0.9.98.2a)    

Using LiMovie (Word file)

Notes on Use of New Version (text)

LiMovie download site (old information)

 

Tangra3

software for measuring occultation light curves

and photometry

 

OccRec

OccuRec is a video recorder for Windows that has been specifically created to provide better options

for recording Asteroidal Occultations

 

OccultWatcher

(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)

 

Occular 4.0

Occular Download File (zip file)

Installation Directions (text file)

 

Registax

(with link to new Registax 6)

Using Registax with your Occultation Videos

Short Tutorial for Registax 6

 

LiMovie Average (zip file)

Using LiMovie Average with

Mutual Events (text)

 

R-code Occultation Timing Extractor

(R-OTE) v 4.6.0

(105 Mb file)

28 August 2017 Update

 

PYOTE

Installation Guides

Mac_Installation_Guide

Windows_Installation_Guide

 

IOTA Video Capture

Additional Details


PyMovie

PyMovie Resources Page

 

 

Miscellaneous Archived

Observations

Where can I find data

from previous events?

Videos and more

Miscellaneous Information

See samples of actual

asteroid occultations

Satellite Pictures

and Forecasts

Use these maps and forecasts

to help plan your observations.

 

IOTA Awards Page

 

IOTA - Middle East Newsletter

No. 1   No. 2   No. 3    No. 4

No. 5    No. 6    No. 7    No. 8

No. 9   No. 10   No. 11   No. 12

No. 13   No. 14   No. 15   No. 16

No. 17   No. 18   No. 19   No. 20

No. 21   No.22   No. 23   No. 24

No. 25   No. 26   No. 27  No. 28

No. 29  No. 30  No. 31

 

The Transit of Venus

 

IOTA Occultation Observers' Manual

Asteroid Pronunciations

Topographic Maps

 

N. American Asteroid Homepage

IOTA Administrative Site

IOTA Lunar Occultation Site

 

An Occultation Observer Primer

(text file)

 

Nautical Almanac Office Technical Note 34

by Gordon Taylor

August, 1974

 

 

NASA Asteroid Data Set

Introductory Pages

PDF

 

 

MPOCC Data Set

 

North American Asteroidal

Occultation Pages

2006 IOTA Page

2007 IOTA Page

2008 IOTA Page

2009 IOTA Page

2010 IOTA Page

2011 IOTA Page

2012 IOTA Page

2013 IOTA Page

2014 IOTA Page

2015 IOTA Page

2016 IOTA Page

 

 

Euraster - Eric Frappa

 

 

 

 

Dedicated YouTube page

containing Asteroid and Lunar

Occultation videos plus

others that are related

 

David Dunham's Video Page

Dave Gault's Video Page

 

Tutorial on the Use of OccultWatcher

by Ted Blank

 

 

W. J. Merline Award for Discovery of an Asteroid Moon by Occultation (MADAMO)

 

Images from Previous Solar Eclipses

provided by Bob Sandy

 

GOES East 1-km Images

Astro Meteo (N. America)

Meteo Blue (Europe)

Detailed Satellite Images

 

Western North America

Weather Satellite

 

North America Weather Satellite

 

FAQ Binary and Asteroid Satellites

 

What is an OCCULTATION?

How do I TIME an Occultation?

Can I time an occultation with a CCD CAMERA?

 

How do I make observations and why are they important? 

by Paul Maley

 

How to Download and Reduce Asteroid Occultation DV Tapes

Richard Nolthenius

 

 

Satellites of Asteroids

 

Jerome Berthier's Occultation Predictions

by Asteroid Satellites

 

Evidence for Asteroid Satellites

by Paul Maley

(presentation to Binary Asteroids Workshop - 5.4 Mb)

 

The "Hercules" Club

Observers who have positioned themselves between the two shadows

of a double asteroid,

so as to observe an occultation by neither component.

 

 

    Asteroid Diameters from Occultations by John Broughton

 

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