North American Results page

North American Asteroidal Occultation Resources page

Spanish

English translation

Asteroidal Occultation Results - Brazil

Resources

What is available at these links?

Observations

How are these Forms used?

What do I need to make observations?

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)

Steve Preston's 2013 Best Asteroidal Occultations

Occultations of Bright Stars

by Denis Denissenko

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

Occultations by Major and Minor

Planets in 2012 (text)

Explanation of 2012 Predictions   (Goffin PDF)

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

Supercircuits PC164CEX-2

IOTA-VTI

WATEC-902H2

WATEC-120N+

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

OCCULT 4

OccultWatcher

(occultation planning software)

VirtualDub              Avisynth  

LiMovie    

Using LiMovie (Word file)

             LiMovie (new version 0.9.97.2)  Soon!

Notes on Use of New Version (text)

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 (11 Mb ZIP)

 OccularV4.zip

Occular ReadMeGuide (text)

Detailed Installation Guide (Word)

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)

Observations

Where can I find data

from previous events?

Asteroid Occultations

See samples of actual

asteroid occultations

and Forecasts

Use these maps and forecasts

to help plan your observations.

IOTA - Middle East Newsletter

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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)

Homer DaBoll Award Page

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

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

GOES East 1-km Images

Astro Meteo (N. America)

Meteo Blue (Europe)

Detailed Satellite Images

Western North America

Weather Satellite

North America Weather Satellite