Predictions
Edwin Goffin predictions
Asteroid Occultation Updates (world updated predictions by Steve Preston)
Bruno Sicardy page
ERC Project Lucky Star (TNO predictions and updates - Josselin Desmars)
Felipe Braga-Ribas page (current TNO updates)
Binary Asteroids - occultation updates (Frederic Vachier)
Events for United Kingdom - UKOCL (Jon Talbot)
Events for Iberian Peninsula, Balearic and Canary islands - IBEROC (Carlos Perello)
Use Occult Watcher to collect automatically the main predictions
(see Software section)
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
OccultWatcher (Hristo Pavlov)
Sky mapping
Guide (Project Pluto - Bill J. Gray)
C2A (Philippe Deverchere - provide a add-in linked with Occult Watcher)
Earth mapping
Google Earth
Mapping Occultation paths (Geoff Hitchcox)
TatukGIS Coordinate Calculator Datum conversion software
GPS
VisualGPS Graphical display of GPS functions
Timing
ToyNTP PC clock synchro using PPS signal from Garmin GPS 18x LVC (Alex Shovkoplyas)
KIWI Precision Timestamp Utility DOS program (Geoff Hitchcox)
Video
OccuRec Video recorder for Windows dedicated to occultations (Hristo Pavlov)
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)
Genika Astro (for digital cameras - AiryLab)
Drift scan
WinScan Drift scan software for SBIG CCD cameras (Christoph Flohr)
Utilisation de WinScan (Denis Fiel - in french)
Photometry
Tangra3 Software for photometric and astrometric video observations (Hristo Pavlov)
Limovie Light measurement tool for video recordings (Kazuhisa Miyashita)
Iris Astronomical images processing software (Christian Buil)
Asteroid database
Minor Planet Center
Minor Planet & Comet Ephemeris Service (MPC)
MPC Statistics
Asteroid Light Curve Database (MPC)
Minor Planet Center Orbit Database (MPCORB)
Asteroids - Dynamic Site (AstDys-2)
The Asteroid Orbital Elements Database (astorb.dat - Ted Bowell)
JPL Small-Body Database (NASA)
Asteroids with Satellites (Wm. Robert Johnston)
ISAM Interactive Service for Asteroid Models (Astronomical Observatory of AMU)
DAMIT Database of Asteroid Models from Inversion Techniques (Josef Durech)
Asteroids & Comets Rotation Curves (Raoul Behrend)
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)
Asteroid catalogues
Asteroid catalogue using AKARI size and albedo of 5120 asteroids (Usui+, 2011)
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)
UCAC5 Catalogue (Zacharias+ 2017, > 107 million stars)
Gaia DR1 (Gaia Collaboration 2016, > 1 billion stars)
Photometric star catalogues
All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS-3)
Double star catalogues
Washington Double Star Catalog (WDS)
Planning, Techniques & Observations
The IOTA Occultation Observer's Manual
Euraster observer guide (in french)
David Dunham page (IOTA)
Paul Maley page (explanation)
Drift-scan timing of asteroid occultations (John Broughton)
Automatic observatories
TAROT home page
TAROT North (Calern - France) automatic station (results)
TAROT South (La Silla - Chile) automatic station (results)
Weather
Meteosat current D2 (NWCSAF)
Meteosat current D2 (sat24.com - 15min interval)
Meteosat current D2 (Wetterzentrale)
Radar live (Infoclimat)
Radar rain/snow (Meteociel)
Radar rainfall (Meteox)
Clouds, rainfall and lightnings (Meteox)
Real-Time Lightning Map
Night fog over Europe (Eumetsat)
Real time imagery (Eumetsat)
Meteosat animation (Institut für Meteorologie - in german)
Current NOAA (Bern university)
Arome 1.3 km (Meteociel)
Arpege 10 km (Meteociel)
GFS meteogramme (Wetterzentrale)
Wetterzentrale (in german)
Meteo France
Lightnings over Europe (Centre Météo UQAM-Montréal)
Europe soundings (University of Wyoming)
Mobile station planning
ViaMichelin (route planner & maps)
Bison Futé (circulation routière - in french)
Video Equipment
Shelyak Occultation kit (FR)
SuperCircuits Low Light Video Cameras (US)
Watec
Mintron
Sony Datasheet
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)
Comparison of various video cameras on M67 star cluster (Gerhard Dangl)
Video photometry (and gamma correction) (Hristo Pavlov)
Digital cameras
Raptor
Timing Equipment
IOTA-VTI Video Time Inserter (IOTA)
Precision GPS Time Video Overlay Unit [BlackBoxCamera, GPSBOXSPRITE2 model]
GPS/DCF TIM-10 Time-Inserter (discontinued - in german)
KIWI-OSD (Video overlay of GPS precision timestamps - Geoff Hitchcox)
Sven Andersson VTI (Sven Andersson)
TimeBOX - LED firing, trigger/intervalometer, computer sync (Cesar Valencia Gallardo)
TimeBOX (on AiryLab)
EthernAude (accurate drift scan piloting for Audine camera - 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)
EXposure Time Analyzer (EXTA) (Gerhard Dangl)
Southern EXposure Time Analyzer (Dave Gault)
Datums
Geodetic Datum Overview (Peter Dana)
Associations, Mailing lists, Worldwide Data
Planoccult European mailing list
EAON (discontinued)
IOTA/ES
SOTAS (Stellar Occultation Timing Association Switzerland)
IOTAoccultations list mainly US mailing list
IOTA
Asteroid Occultation Reports for North America (Brad Timerson)
Japanese occultation results (Tsutomu Hayamizu)(results before 2018/03/22)
RASNZ Occultation section (Royal Astronomical Society Of New Zealand)
World data compilation on NASA Planetary Data System
Photometry
Video Photometry with Tangra (Hristo Pavlov)
Courbe photométrique sur astéroïde (Laurent Bernasconi - in french)
Radar & Direct Imaging
Asteroid Radar Research
2017 VLT's SPHERE images of 29 Amphitrite, 324 Bamberga, 2 Pallas, 89 Julia
2015 New Horizons images of 134340 Pluto
New Horizons Mission
2014-2018 Dawn images of 1 Ceres
2014-2016 Rosetta images of comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko
2011-2012 Dawn images of 4 Vesta
2010 Epoxi images of comet Hartley 2
2010 Rosetta images of 21 Lutetia
2008 Rosetta images of 2867 Steins
2005 Hayabusa images of 25143 Itokawa
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)
Others
Time conversion chart
Julian Date Converter
Julian Date Calculator
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