The Homer F. DaBoll Award

of the International Occultation Timing Association

 

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Past Award Recipients

 

2017

Regional Coordinators for Asteroidal Occultations

John Talbot, Steve Kerr, Eric Frappa,

Tsutomu Hayamizu, Brad Timerson

 

2016

Derek C. Breit

 

2015

Gerhard Dangl

 

2014

Brian Loader

 

2013

Graham Blow

 

2012

Kazuhisa Miyashita

 

2011

Scotty Degenhardt

 

2010

Hristo Pavlov

 

2009

Steve Preston

 

2008

Edwin Goffin

 

2007

Dave Herald

 

 

Dave Herald - 2007 Award Recipient

The 1st recipient of IOTA ’s Homer F. DaBoll Award is David Herald of Canberra, Australia. Herald was presented the award directly from IOTA President Dr. David Dunham at the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand conference, June 29 – July 1, 2007. David Herald is the author of the widely acclaimed program, Occult, which predicts all types of occultation events, eclipses, transits and he has maintained the database of all observed asteroidal occultations, plus lunar limb data from grazes and total occultation observations used by Occult. Rapid, easily made predictions and data analysis would not be possible without Herald’s Occult program, which has been used since the early 1990’s worldwide by occultation observers.