North American Asteroidal Occultation Program

Updated Tuesday, May 07, 2013

 

UTC Date and Time

 

 

Star Catalog Comparison Requests

updated May 7, 2013

 

How To Observe the Argentina Occultation

By Steve Conard (Word document)

 

12 May 2013  (1197) Rhodesia

12 May 2013 (480) Hansa

23 May 2013 - Uranus occults SAO 109382

Map

Star Catalog Comparison

28 Oct (13) Egeria

Special AstroFest PowerPoint file in Russian

PDF Pre-Point Charts (zip file)     Pre-Point Star List

Detailed Summary in Russian

     

 

Miscellaneous Files

D. Dunham's Mid-Atlantic Occultation Summary D. Dunham's Graze Information 2012

Quadea, the Incredible Shrinking Asteroid

presentation to APL Astronomy Club by David Dunham

Interactive maps for North American Lunar grazing occultations

(Brad Timerson's Graze page)
(Includes forms & procedures for reporting lunar total and grazing occultation observations)

 

The Index of Worldwide Asteroidal Occultation Reports

compiled by Hayato Watanabe

 

Primary North American Coordinator

Backup Coordinators

North American Asteroidal Occultation Results

2006      2007      2008      2009     2010    2011   2012   2013

Report your Observations

Report Form Templates

Text Form

 

Predictions Important IOTA Pages

Other Web Links

 

Steve Preston's Page

Derek Breit's Page

David Dunham's Page

Steve Messner's Page

OccultWatcher

Occultations of Bright Stars

(Denis Denissenko)

 

 

 

IOTA Administrative Page

IOTA Lunar Occultations Page

 

IOTA Annual Meetings:  1983 - present

 

2007-2012 IOTA Annual Meetings Page

with Presentations

 

Preliminary 2013 Annual Meeting Page

 

Euraster

Australia/New Zealand

Japan

Latin America

(English)

Worldwide Homepage

 

Downloads Miscellaneous Files Publications

 

An Occultation Observer Primer  (text file)

 

An Occultation Timing Primer Word  HTML

 

Introduction to Occultations (pdf)

Paul Maley, Richard Nugent

 

Occultations by Asteroid Satellites

 

Lunar Occultations of Comets  Word    Text

 

Chasing the Shadow:

The IOTA Occultation Observer's Manual

 

FREE Software Downloads

 

OCCULT4

Occultation Prediction Software

by Dave Herald

 

OccultWatcher

Occultation Planning Software by Hristo Pavlov

(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)

 

LiMovie

software for measuring occultation light curves

 

Tangra

software for measuring occultation light curves and photometry

 

Occular 4.0 (11 Mb ZIP file)

(redirects you to download on Worldwide homepage)

Occular 4.0 Installation Guide (text)

Occular 4.0 Installation Guide (detailed - Word file)

 

VirtualDub

video editing software

 

AviSynth

video editing software

 

 

The "Mighty-Mini" Videocamera System

by Scotty Degenhardt

 

Timing Using CCD Drift Scanning

Drift Scan Description

 

The Effects of Optical Miniaturization on Occultations

by Scott Degenhardt (webpage)

 

My Metis Meteor  by Scott Degenhardt

 

Multi-Station Occultation Observing (7.5 Mb PP)

by Scotty Degenhardt

 

Scotty Degenhardt's Time Code

Procedures with the Canon ZR

( 850kb ZIP file)

 

How Scotty Degenhardt Sets Up Multiple Remote Stations

(16 kb ZIP file)

 

How to Download and Reduce Asteroid Occultation  DV Tapes

Richard Nolthenius

 

WWVB-based video time inserter

John Wright

 

JXD990-8000 Video Recorder Manual

"Maxi" Mount for use with 120mm refractor

Canon ZR Date Code Reducer (Excel)

 

Powerpoint Presentation to

N. Virginia Astronomy Club

by David Dunham - April 13, 2008 ( 5 Mb)

 

Richard Nugent's Solar Eclipse Summary

 

----------  Minor Planet Bulletin articles  ----------

A Trio of Well-Observed Asteroidal

Occultations in 2008

by Brad Timerson, et. al.

Minor Planet Bulletin, 2009 July-Sept.

pp. 98-100

 

Occultations by 81 Terpsichore and 694 Ekard

in 2009 at Different Rotational Phase Angles

by Brad Timerson, et. al.

Minor Planet Bulletin, 2010 Oct-Dec

pp. 140-142

 

Several Well-Observed Asteroidal Occultations in 2010

by Brad Timerson, et. al.

Minor Planet Bulletin, 2011 Oct-Dec

pp. 200-204

 

----------  JDSO New Double Star articles  ----------

(select Archives)

Vol 6, No 2   1049 Feodosia

Vol 7, No 2   675 Ludmilla

Vol 7, No 3   790 Pretoria

Vol 7, No 3   160 Una

Pending

336 Lacadiera

695 Bella

 

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Review of the 29 May Eudora Occultation

(by D. Dunham)

 

 Gravic Astronomy Workshop - Saturday, October 8th

(proposed agenda)

Summary of the Astronomy Workshop at Gravic

 

 

 

Basic Information on Occultations (Eclipses) and the July 19, 2011 occultation by Antiope

David Dunham

 

Special Page for Antiope Occultation - July 19, 2011

(from 2011 Meeting)

 

 

North American Annular Eclipse, May 20, 2012

Richard Nugent

 

 

 

Important Information Regarding Star Catalog Comparisons

provided by Dave Herald from the OCCULT Help files

Updated (July 21, 2010) Information

Word Document (for printing)

 

North American weather satellite image

 

Western North America weather satellite image

 

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