Occultation Equipment and Techniques:
Observers can find more detailed information on equipment and techniques from the IOTA Observer’s manual, from information posted on the links below, and from postings to the various IOTA forums. In addition, IOTA is now offering a complete “ready-to-observe” kit with all the hardware components you’ll need to record asteroid or lunar occultations or grazes with high-precision timing accuracy.
- Analog Video Recording with Windows PCs
- Asteroid Occultation Observations and Resources
- Lunar Occultation Resources
- An Occultation Timing Primer
- Using a Mac for Occultations
- Recording Asteroidal occultations with CCD Drift Scan exposures
- Recording occultation videos with a DSLR
- Tutorials for using LiMovie to extract light curves from video files
- More tutorials on timing, analyzing, and reporting occultation observation videos
- Digital Cameras
- Boot Camp