North American Asteroid Occultation Program

Updated Thursday, August 21, 2008

 

UTC Date and Time

 

Powerpoint Presentation to N. Virginia Astronomy Club by David Dunham - April 13, 2008 ( 5 Mb)

 

IOTA Annual Meeting Information - Scroll to the bottom of the page

Richard Nugent's Solar Eclipse Summary

(see composite image of Baily's Beads on the bottom of this page)

 

 

North American

Coordinators

Excel

Text

Map

 

 

North American

Asteroid Occultation Results

 

2006      2007      2008

 

Report your

Observations

Templates

Archived templates

Text Form

 

Predictions

Steve Preston's Page

Derek Breit's Page

Sander Pool's Page

Brad Timerson's Page

David Dunham's Page

Steve Messner's Page

OccultWatcher

Goffin's North American Maps

 

 

Miscellaneous Files

 

An Occultation Timing Primer

Word    HTML

 

Occultations by Asteroid Satellites

 

How to Calculate Lunar

Occultations of Comets

Word    Text

 

Timing Using CCD Drift Scanning

 

Drift Scan Description

(text file)

 

IOTA Administrative Page

 

IOTA Lunar Occultations Page

 

  Papers and Presentations from the 2007 IOTA Annual Meeting

Meeting Minutes with Pictures

 

Positional Accuracy with KIWI OSD (6.9 Mb PDF)

2007 Financial Report (26 kb PowerPoint)

Hiraoka Occultation Report (3.8 Mb PP)

Pluto Occultation 2007 from Pasco, WA (500 kb PP)

OccuLAR Presentation (2.3 Mb PP)

Status of the Asteroid Occultation Form and Websites (46 kb Word file)

Using Registax and LiMovie (914 kb PP)

Archiving and Astrometric Positions (32 kb PP)

 

David Dunham's Page with Presentations

 

OccuLAR 2.09 (368 kb ZIP file)

Occultation LiMovie Analysis Routine

Download ZIP file, unZip, Run Setup.exe

Directions for using OccuLAR (1.2 Mb Word file)

 

Chasing the Shadow: The IOTA Occultation Observer's Manual

 

OCCULT4 - Occultation Prediction Software by Dave Herald

 

Other Links

Euraster

Australia/New Zealand

Japan

Latin America

(English)

 

Worldwide Homepage

 

 

 

 

Miscellaneous Files

 

The "Mighty-Mini" video

camera system by

Scotty Degenhardt

Text document

Larger Picture

 

 

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2008 IOTA Annual Meeting Features N. America's Best 2008 Asteroidal Occultation

 

 

Latest IR satellite image of the United States

 

Composite Image of Baily's Beads at the start of the eclipse

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