Lifetime Achievement Award

of the International Occultation Timing Association

 

Walt "Rob" Robinson

Walt Robinson

 

                

Walt joined IOTA in 1988. He has observed over 1,000 occultations and has provided occultation predictions for 3 decades. He created and maintained IOTA’s first website

lunar-occultations.com in 1995. He recovered 100’s of occultation timings identifying previously unknown occultation stars and is the distributor of Occult software worldwide – in the early years by CD and later by direct download.  Walt created and maintains the IOTA email discussion group and was co-author of the book “Occultation Observer’s Handbook” in 2006 with Hal Povenmire.