Predictions
Edwin Goffin predictions ftp site
Asteroid Occultation Updates (world updated predictions by Steve Preston)
Asteroidal Occultations (Europe, North Africa and Middle East)
Ludek Vasta page (E. Goffin predictions in ps and gif format)
Jan Manek page (Updated predictions)
Prediction of stellar occultations by binary asteroids (Jerome Berthier) EAON recent astorb updates (Jean Schwaenen)
Bright stars, TNO (Denis Denissenko)
Events for United Kingdom (Jon Harper)
Events for France (Eric Frappa)
Automatic Occultation Search (Bernard Guillaud Saumur - in french)
Detailed path maps
Current Global Asteroid Events (Derek C Breit)
Google Maps based on "Upcoming Events" page of S. Preston
Future Global Asteroid Events (Derek C Breit)
Google Maps based on "Monthly index" page (current year) of S. Preston
Software
Predictions
WinOccult Occultation software - Predictions, reductions (Dave Herald)
LinOccult Occultation software for Linux (Andrei Plekhanov)
OrbFit Asteroid orbit study software
Event planner
Occult Watcher (Hristo Pavlov)
Sky mapping
Guide (Project Pluto - Bill J. Gray)
Earth mapping
Google Earth
Mapping Occultation paths (Geoff Hitchcox)
TatukGIS Coordinate Calculator Datum conversion software
GPS
VisualGPS Graphical display of GPS functions
Timing
KIWI Precision Timestamp Utility DOS program (Geoff Hitchcox)
NMEATime Setting a Windows PC clock with a GPS receiver [not really accurate]
Video
VirtualDub Video capture/processing utility
Avisynth Video programming language for post-prod editing (Ben Rudiak-Gould)
Using Avisynth with Limovie (Steve Preston)
Huffyuv Lossless win32 video codec (Ben Rudiak-Gould)
Drift scan
WinScan Drift scan software for SBIG CCD cameras (Christoph Flohr)
Utilisation de WinScan (Denis Fiel - in french)
Photometry
Limovie Light measurement tool for video recordings (Kazuhisa Miyashita)
Iris Astronomical images processing software (Christian Buil)
Asteroid database
Minor Planet Center
The Asteroid Orbital Elements Database (astorb.dat - Ted Bowell)
Minor Planet Center Orbit Database (MPCORB)
Asteroids - Dynamic Site (AstDys)
Orbit Diagrams (NASA)
Small Bodies Data Base
Asteroids with Satellites (Wm. Robert Johnston)
Minor Planet Names (MPC - alphabetical list)
Numbered Minor Planets (MPC)
Sloan Digital Sky Survey Moving Object Catalog
Asteroid (and Comet) Groups (Petr Scheirich)
Orbital Elements: Guide
Absolute Magnitude to Diameter (SFASU)
Astrometric star catalogues
Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA 1997, 118 218 stars)
Tycho-2 Catalogue (Hog+ 2000, 2 539 913 stars)
UCAC2 Catalogue (Zacharias+ 2003, 48 330 571 stars)
Recommended Star Catalogs (Zacharias et al, USNO)
Photometric star catalogues
All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS-3)
Double star catalogues
Washington Double Star Catalog (WDS)
Planning, Techniques & Observations
Bruno Sicardy page (occultation expeditions)
Euraster observer guide (in french)
David Dunham page (IOTA)
Paul Maley page (explanation)
Richard Nugent page (explanation, techniques and Texas results)
Simone Bolzoni page [in italian, discontinued]
Automatic observatories
TAROT home page
TAROT North (Calern - France) automatic station (results)
TAROT South (La Silla - Chile) automatic station (results)
Weather
Meteosat current D2 (sat24.com - 15min interval)
Meteosat current D2 (Wetterzentrale)
Meteosat current D2 (Air Force)
Meteosat animation (Institut für Meteorologie - in german)
Meteosat animation (Eumetsat)
Current NOAA (Bern university)
GFS meteogramme (Wetterzentrale)
Wetterzentrale (in german)
Meteoliguria Meteo France
Lightnings over Europe (Centre Météo UQAM-Montréal)
Europe soundings (University of Wyoming)
Radar map (Swissworld)
Mobile station planning
ViaMichelin (route planner & maps)
Bison Futé (circulation routière - in french)
Video Equipment
Optovision Low Light Video Cameras (FR)
RfConcepts Low Light Video Cameras (UK)
SuperCircuits Low Light Video Cameras (US)
Watec
Mintron
Sony Datasheet Search
Test of the Watec 120N video camera (Christian Buil)
Comparing the Mintron and the Watec 120N (Detlef Koschny)
Measurements of exposure and internal delay on video cameras
for use with Video Time Inserter (Gerhard Dangl)
Timing Equipment
Test your reaction time (applet by Klaus Nagel)
Astro Precision GPS Time Inserter [BlackBoxCamera, discontinued]
GPS/DCF Time-Inserter (Alexander Meier, ex Cuno inserter - in german)
KIWI-OSD (Video overlay of GPS precision timestamps - Geoff Hitchcox)
KIWI-OSD (distribution)
KIWI-OSD test at extreme temperatures (Gerhard Dangl, Geoff Hitchcox)
EventAude (accurate datation for Audine camera - Guy Detienne - in french)
EthernAude (accurate drift scan piloting for Audine camera - in french)
Ethernaude (distribution - in french)
Garmin OEM GPS
GPS timing problem: Display of GPS time instead of UTC (Oliver Kloes)
Timing errors of the Garmin GPS35HVS (Oliver Kloes)
Datums
Datum of a GPS receiver (Geoff Hitchcox)
Geodetic Datum Overview (Peter Dana)
Associations, Mailing lists, Worldwide Data
Planoccult European mailing list
(to subscribe use emails provided on Euraster home page)
EAON
IOTA/ES
IOTAoccultations list mainly US mailing list
IOTA
Asteroid Occultation Reports for North America (Brad Timerson)
JOIN occultation results (Tsutomu Hayamizu)
RASNZ Occultation section (Royal Astronomical Society Of New Zealand)
World data compilation on NASA Planetary Data System
Photometry
Asteroids & Comets Rotation Curves (Raoul Behrend)
Courbe photométrique sur astéroïde (Laurent Bernasconi - in french)
Radar & Direct Imaging
Asteroid Radar Research
2005 Hayabusa images of 25143 Itokawa
Hayabusa Mission
2005 Hubble images of 1 Ceres
2005 Deep Impact images of comet Tempel 1
Deep Impact Mission 2004 VLT images of 87 Sylvia and 2 moons
2004 Stardust images of comet Wild 2
2002 Stardust images of 5535 Annefrank
Stardust Mission 2002 Keck images of 511 Davida
2001 Deep Space 1 images of comet Borrelly
2000 NEAR images of 433 Eros
1999 Deep Space 1 images of 9969 Braille
1997 NEAR images of 253 Mathilde
NEAR Mission
1997 Hubble images of 4 Vesta
1995 Hubble images of 4 Vesta
1993 Galileo images of 243 Ida
1993 Galileo images of Dactyl (Ida satellite)
1991 Galileo images of 951 Gaspra
1986 Giotto Images of comet Halley
TNOs
Distant EKOs (the Kuiper Belt Electronic Newsletter - Joel Parker)
Kuiper Belt page (David Jewitt)
New Horizons (Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission)
Others
Lexique du métrologue (LNE-SYRTE - in french) Horloge parlante de l'Observatoire de Paris (LNE-SYRTE - in french)
Saut de temps d'UTC (LNE-SYRTE - in french)
Time conversion chart
Julian Date Converter Julian Date Calculator
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