Worldwide Asteroid Occultation Observations

updated Saturday, February 06, 2010

 

Results of Observations

Australia/New Zealand Europe Japan North America Latin America

Spanish

English translation (pending)

 

 

Online Resources for Asteroid 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?

Software

How can these programs help

with my observations?

 

Steve Preston

Derek Breit

David Dunham

(2009 Predictions)

 

Steve Preston's 2010 Best

Asteroid Occultations

 

Preston's 2010 Best merged

with RASC list (Excel)

(includes information on events that have

inversion models and/or light curve data)

 

Occultations of Bright Stars

by Denis Denissenko

 

EAON - Jean Schwaenen

 

Occult Watcher

 

 

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 Australasia ONLY

 

Text Form

KIWI OSD

Supercircuits PC164C

WAT-902H2

 

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

OCCULT 4

VirtualDub        Avisynth

LiMovie          Registax

Using LiMovie (Word file)

 

OccultWatcher

 

Occular 4.0 (11 Mb ZIP)OccularV4.zip
Downloads since Feb 4 2009

Occular ReadMeGuide (text)

 

How To Use "Registax" with your

Occultation Videos

 

UPDATED!!!  August 7, 2009

LiMovie Average ZIP file

Using LiMovie Average with

Mutual Events (text)

 

 

Miscellaneous Archived

Observations

Where can I find data

from previous events?

YouTube Videos of

Asteroid Occultations

See samples of actual

asteroid occultations

Satellite Pictures

and Forecasts

Use these maps and forecasts

to help plan your observations.

 

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)

 

NASA Asteroid Data Set

MPOCC Data Set

 

2006 IOTA Page

2007 IOTA Page

2008 IOTA Page

2009 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

 

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)

 

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