Asteroid Occultation Report Forms

Updated Friday, June 26, 2009

Download event Templates below to Report your observations.  Email to the address shown below (also on the Form).

These Forms are to be used ONLY by observers in North America and Australasia!

Observers in other parts of the world have their own reporting systems in place.

These Forms work with Excel and the latest version of OpenOffice.  They are Mac and PC compatible.

Please read the Directions for using these forms carefully.

If you cannot use the Excel forms, use the "old-style" text form.

The Templates shown below have been created for the specific Asteroid event listed.

Very Important!!

FIRST, download the Template of the Asteroid for which you have observations.

You can do this in two ways:

1) Click on the file you need and choose "Save" and then place the file in a directory on your computer, or

2) Right-click on the file, choose "Save Target As" and then save the file to a directory on your computer.)

Start Excel or OpenOffice and Open this Saved File

Insert your location specific data including the Predict Time at the top.

If you have a "Miss", be sure the upper left drop-down shows "Negative" and "Was this a Miss?" at the bottom is "Yes"

Take care to use the drop-down menus properly when choosing the format for latitude and longitude.

Save As:  Just place Your Last Name in place of LastName in the file name.

Mac users - leave off the star name to shorten file name if necessary.

Send the Form to the email addresses below as an attachment.

If a Template is not available ( i.e. low probability events),

please modify an existing Form or use the Blank Form at top of page.

Be sure to change the date, asteroid #, and name if you use an existing Form.

Send ALL completed reports to:  reports@asteroidoccultation.com

No other copies need be sent out anymore.

PLEASE use one of the following examples when you create a Subject line for the emails:

Subject:  2007 04 10  (7) Iris  Positive 

Subject:  2007 03 26  (498) Tokio Negative

User #   since 1 Jan 2009

Report all problems, including omissions and errors to:  Brad Timerson

Remember, you can always use one of the Blank Report Forms for your observations.

The "old-style" text form may be used if you don't have access to Excel or a

recent version of OpenOffice.  Any text editor will work with this form.

Please complete all fields on the form completely and accurately.

Email this form to the same email addresses shown above!