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Grazing Occultation Events in North America
January, February 2010

updated Wednesday, January 27, 2010
courtesy of BRAD TIMERSON
 

ALL TIMES UT UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED

All Graze Predictions created using Dave Herald's OCCULT v.4 software.

Interactive Maps of Event Paths
Included Time File gives times along the graze path.
Email me for Profiles for longitude positions and elevations along the path.
Use the Offsets on the maps to adjust location based on the Profile.
At the links below, you will be directed to Google Maps of the event.  
This is an interactive map allowing you to zoom in on your location and find road intersections at which observing stations can be located.

I appreciate the help of Derek Breit and Kiwi Geoff Hitchcox in helping me get these pages published.

 

Important Request for U.S. Observers of Grazing Occultations

Missing Graze Reports:  1974-1985 (46 kb Excel file)

Please help Dave Gault and Dave Herald fill in data for these Missing Graze Reports.

Check this file to see if you have Graze Reports that have not been properly filed.

 


New Procedures to Report Total and Grazing Lunar Occultations

The International Occultation Timing Association (IOTA) analyzes lunar occultation observations and is now the world clearinghouse for such observations, having taken over this role from the International Lunar Occultation Centre (ILOC), which will close in March 2009. Because of this, new procedures have been established to aid observers in reporting their observations.

Two new ways (in addition to using OCCULT4 directly and LOW - Lunar Occultation Workbench) are being readied to report lunar occultations. One method uses an Excel Report Form similar to the Form in widespread use in the reporting of Asteroid Occultations. Those familiar and comfortable with the use of the Asteroid Report Form may want to give this new Lunar Report Form a try. The other procedure uses an application developed by Dave Herald called LunarReport which looks very much like the module used in OCCULT4 to enter observations.

Read HERE the latest information on how to Report Lunar Occultations (Word file)  (Text File)

 

Send all Grazing Occultation Reports to Mitsuru Soma .  North America observers should send a Copy to Derek Breit.

Send all North American Total Occultation Reports to Derek Breit

 New Excel-based Lunar Occultation Report Form

Dave Herald's Lunar Occultation Reporting Application (ZIP file)

(updated November 3, 2008)

Directions for use of the Excel-based Form (Word) (Text) LOW download page               OCCULT download page

 

Dave Herald's Summary Emails of the NEW Procedures  (Text file)

Dave Herald's Important Information regarding Double Stars and Lunar Occultations (text file)


Lunar Grazing Occultation Maps for 2010 - Magnitude 7.5 and brighter stars in North America

by David Dunham and Eberhard Riedel

 

Table of Events (text file)

Map, Jan 1 to Feb 20        Map, Feb 21 to Apr 15        Map, Apr 16 to Jun 30        Map, Jul 1 to Aug 30

  Map, Sep 1 to Oct 15        Map, Oct 16 to Nov 10         Map, Nov 11 to Dec 10         Map, Dec 11 to Dec 31

 


For these events, additional details can be found using Occult4

OR by emailing Brad Timerson directly for specific times and profiles. 

Be SURE to include expected observing site location and elevation.


 

January 26, 2010            ZC 683         North limit           Times

 

January 26, 2010            ZC 703         North limit           Times

 

January 27, 2010            SAO 77200         South limit           Times

 

January 27, 2010            ZC 822         South limit           Times

 

January 27, 2010            SAO 77244         North limit           Times

 

January 27, 2010            ZC 842         North limit           Times

 

January 27, 2010            SAO 77281         North limit           Times

 

January 27, 2010            ZC 867         North limit           Times

 

January 28, 2010            ZC 1015         North limit           Times

 

January 28, 2010            ZC 1019         North limit           Times

 

January 28, 2010            SAO 78707         North limit           Times

 

January 29, 2010            ZC 1193         North limit           Times

 

January 31, 2010            ZC 1468         North limit           Times

 


 

February 1, 2010            ZC 1566         South limit           Times

 

February 3, 2010            SAO 138822         South limit           Times

 

February 3, 2010            SAO 138825         South limit           Times

 

February 4, 2010            SAO 157905         South limit           Times

 

February 4, 2010            SAO 157920         South limit           Times

 

February 4, 2010            ZC 1931         South limit           Times

 

February 4, 2010            SAO 157972         South limit           Times

 

February 5, 2010            ZC 2046         South limit           Times

 

February 7, 2010            SAO 184209         South limit           Times

 

February 7, 2010            ZC 2349         North limit           Times

 

February 8, 2010            SAO 185020         South limit           Times

 

February 8, 2010            ZC 2458         South limit           Times

 

February 8, 2010            SAO 185126         South limit           Times

 

February 17, 2010            SAO 128385         North limit           Times

 

February 18, 2010            SAO 109329         North limit           Times

 

February 19, 2010            SAO 92397         North limit           Times

 

February 20, 2010            X 54005         South limit           Times

 

February 20, 2010            ZC 440         South limit           Times

 

February 21, 2010            SAO 75705         South limit           Times

 

February 21, 2010            SAO 75704         North limit           Times

 

February 21, 2010            SAO 75775         North limit           Times

 

February 21, 2010            ZC 587         North limit           Times

 

February 22, 2010            SAO 76374         North limit           Times

 

February 22, 2010            ZC 598         South limit           Times

 

February 22, 2010            SAO 76493         North limit           Times

 

February 22, 2010            ZC 743         South limit           Times

 

February 23, 2010            SAO 76924         North limit           Times

 

February 24, 2010            SAO 77925         North limit           Times

 

February 24, 2010            SAO 78081         North limit           Times

 

February 25, 2010            SAO 79285         North limit           Times

 

February 25, 2010            ZC 1110         North limit           Times

 

February 25, 2010            ZC 1129         North limit           Times

 

February 26, 2010            ZC 1245         North limit           Times

 

February 28, 2010            ZC 1519         North limit           Times

 

 


 

 

Special Request Events
ZC 956 17 May 2010 Google Map