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. A new addition to the equipment family is the Astrid device, with information and ordering links here. 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. NOTE: The complete IOTA observation kit is temporarily unavailable.
- Astrid Information and Ordering Page
- 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