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Contacting IOTA

Send address changes, email address changes, reimbursement requests, special requests, and other IOTA business, but not observation reports, to:

Observers in North America and Hawaii should send articles to the North American coordinator for Journal of Occultation Astronomy (formerly Occultation Newsletter) to:

Send Lunar Grazing Occultation reports to:

  • Dr. Mitsuru Sôma
    V.P. for Grazing Occultation Services
    National Astronomical Observatory
    Osawa-2, Mitaka-shi
    Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
    Email: Mitsuru.Soma@gmail.com

It is useful to send a copy to:

  • North American lunar occultation observations coordinator
    Derek Breit
    17370 B Hawkins Ln
    Morgan Hill, CA 95037
    USA
    Email: breit_ideas@poyntsource.com
    Observers should read the section, “New Procedures to Report Total and Grazing Lunar Occultations” near the top of the Web page at http://www.timerson.net/IOTA/.

Send interesting stories of lunar grazing occultations to:

Send Total Occultation and copies of Lunar Grazing Occultation reports to:

  • North American lunar occultation observations coordinator
    Derek Breit
    17370 B Hawkins Ln
    Morgan Hill, CA 95037
    USA
    Email: breit_ideas@poyntsource.com
    Observers should read the section, “New Procedures to Report Total and Grazing Lunar Occultations” near the top of the Web page at http://www.timerson.net/IOTA/.

Send Asteroidal Appulse and Asteroidal Occultation reports to:

  • North American planetary/asteroidal occultation observations coordinator

John Moore, Email:reports@asteroidoccultation.com

Observers are encouraged to use the asteroidal occultation report forms available at http://www.asteroidoccultation.com/observations/Forms/AsteroidReportForms.html

Send observations of occultations that indicate stellar duplicity to:

  • Martin Unwin, email unwinm51@gmail.com and a copy to
  • North American lunar occultation observations coordinator
    Derek Breit
    17370 B Hawkins Ln
    Morgan Hill, CA 95037
    USA
    Email: breit_ideas@poyntsource.com

To contact Board Members or IOTA Officers, ask questions regarding camera or video time inserter purchase, or request information about other aspects of IOTA operations:

last modified May 31st, 2023