RASNZ Occultation Manual

IOTA/ East Asia

Japan

Results page

North American Results page

North American Asteroidal Occultation Resources page

IOTA - Central & South America

LIADA (Spanish)

REA Occultation Section (Portuguese)

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)

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

Grazing Occultations for 2016

Riedel/Dunham

Occultations by Asteroids - 2017

(Edwin Goffin)

ReadMe file

List of Occultations by Asteroids - 2018

(Edwin Goffin)

Information about Occultations

Use the Region Number

(first column of above text file)

to find maps for each event

Regions:  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8

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

IOTA-VTI

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

Important:  KIWI-VTI Startup Procedures

by Dave Gault

KIWI-OSD Users' Manual

Dave Gault's Note

KIWI-OSD Firmware Upgrade

OCCULT 4

OccultWatcher

(occultation planning software)

VirtualDub              Avisynth  

User Webpage (NEW!)

LiMovie (latest version 0.9.97.3)

LiMovie (version 0.9.98.2a)    

Using LiMovie (Word file)

Notes on Use of New Version (text)

LiMovie download site (old information)

Tangra3

software for measuring occultation light curves

and photometry

OccRec

OccuRec is a video recorder for Windows that has been specifically created to provide better options

for recording Asteroidal Occultations

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

Occular Download File (zip file)

Installation Directions (text file)

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)

R-code Occultation Timing Extractor

(R-OTE) v 4.6.0

(105 Mb file)

28 August 2017 Update

PYOTE

Installation Guides

Mac_Installation_Guide

Windows_Installation_Guide

IOTA Video Capture

Additional Details

PyMovie

PyMovie Resources Page

Observations

Where can I find data

from previous events?

Miscellaneous Information

See samples of actual

asteroid occultations

and Forecasts

Use these maps and forecasts

to help plan your observations.

IOTA Awards Page

IOTA - Middle East Newsletter

No. 1   No. 2   No. 3    No. 4

No. 5    No. 6    No. 7    No. 8

No. 9   No. 10   No. 11   No. 12

No. 13   No. 14   No. 15   No. 16

No. 17   No. 18   No. 19   No. 20

No. 21   No.22   No. 23   No. 24

No. 25   No. 26   No. 27  No. 28

No. 29  No. 30  No. 31

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)

Nautical Almanac Office Technical Note 34

by Gordon Taylor

August, 1974

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

2012 IOTA Page

2013 IOTA Page

2014 IOTA Page

2015 IOTA Page

2016 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

W. J. Merline Award for Discovery of an Asteroid Moon by Occultation (MADAMO)

Images from Previous Solar Eclipses

provided by Bob Sandy

GOES East 1-km Images

Astro Meteo (N. America)

Meteo Blue (Europe)

Detailed Satellite Images

Western North America

Weather Satellite

North America Weather Satellite