User Guides and Tutorials for Occultation Observations
Here we have some guidelines, tutorials, report forms and other manuals for the work in occultation astronomy. Some of the articles are in German, they will be translated in the nearest future. you should look from time to time to this page, to see more and more information articles coming up.
You can download these guidelines in pdf format. you can copy them to other websites, as long as you use a proper citation.
User Guides
- A guide to Video Astrometry from Alex Pratt (pdf)
- Bedeckungsereignisse beobachten von Nicolai Wuensche, IOTA/ES (pdf)
- Einstieg in die visuelle Messung von Sternbedeckungen durch Asteroiden von Oliver Kloes, IOTA/ES (pdf)
- Observing Occultations Using Video: A Beginner’s Guide from the RASNZ, Copyright © 2015 Occultation Section of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand, Jacqueline Milner & Graham Blow, Editors. All rights reserved. (pdf)
- Instructions for Minor Planet Occultation Observation. Tereza Brejchová, 2019, in Czech language. (pdf)
Tutorials
- Tutorial - Using Occult for (Total) Lunar Occultation prediction, reporting and analysis.
Dave Gault and Dave Herald
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Tangra and Aota Tutorials
A workshop on TANGRA and AOTA was held on the 5th of November 2022
In the following video recordings you can follow the workshop...
- Tutorial - Introduction
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- Tangra Part 1
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- Tangra Part 2
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- Tangra Part 3
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- AOTA Part 1
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- AOTA Part 2
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- AOTA Part 3
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- AOTA Part 4
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