2022 Occultations by Distant Solar System Objects - Updated 2022 September 21

An occultation of a 12.6-mag. star by Saturn's moon Hyperion will occur on Sept. 23 UT from Kansas to s. Calif., and Hawaii

The rare occultation by Titan the morning of July 9 was observed across North America


These occultations are described and illustrated in this .pdf document. 
It includes several hot links to external Web pages, but links to internal files, 
especially the .xml input files used by the Occult program, are given below.
The .pdf document has NOT been updated for the 2022 July and September 
special events noted below. And to save space on the server where this 
page is hosted, some of the larger files for past occultations have been 
removed, so you will get broken links for them. If you want a file that 
is not available, we can send it to you upon request.
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2022 SEPTEMBER 23 OCCULTATION OF 12.6-MAG. STAR BY HYPERION (SATURN VII)

CLICK HERE for a special page with detailed predictions for the 
Sept. 23rd occultation of a 12.6mag. star by Hyperion (Saturn VII).
The occultation will occur early in the 8th hour UT Sept. 23rd, visible from 
a path crossing the USA from Kansas to southern California, southern Hawaii 
Island, and a few equatorial Pacific islands farther west. It is a Lucky Star 
(Rio group) event; any observations should be reported to their portal, as 
noted on the Web page. 
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2022 SEPTEMBER 13 OCCULTATION OF 11.9-MAG. STAR BY THE URANUS SYSTEM

CLICK HERE for a special page with detailed predictions for the 
Sept. 12/13 occultation of an 11.9mag. star by Uranus and by its rings. 
The occultation will occur from 4h to 7h UT Sept. 13 UT, visible from 
most of North America, the Caribbean, Central America, most of South 
America, and western Europe. It is a Lucky Star event; any observations 
should be reported to their portal, as noted on the Web page, which also 
has important recommendations for observing the event. Only a few recordings 
of this very difficult event were obtained and are being analyzed to see 
if any events by the Uranian rings, especiall epsilon, were detected.
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2022 JULY 9 OCCULTATION OF 8.7-MAG. STAR BY TITAN

CLICK HERE for a special page with detailed predictions for the 
July 9th occultation of an 8.7mag. star by Saturn's large moon Titan.
This interactive Google Map shows the northern and southern limits (red lines) 
and the central line (green). Specify +100 and -100 for offset values above 
the map and two dark gray lines will be plotted, defining the area where a 
strong central flash most likely occurred. 
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OCCULT INPUT .XML FILES FOR 2022

When you open these files with your Web browser,
you should get a display that looks like this.
The larger files may take a couple of minutes to show this appearance, 
showing a messed-up display before then. Once the proper view appears, 
right-click anywhere on the display, then "Save as" to a directory
on your computer; the best directory is the \Asteroid\ subdirectory 
in your Occult\ directory.

For the 8 distant Solar System objects events mapped and tabulated in the main .pdf document
For the 2022 Sept. 23rd occultation by Hyperion (Saturn VII)
For the 2022 Sept. 13th occultation by Uranus
For the 2022 July 9th occultation by Titan, updated June26
Worldwide distant objects events to mag. 16, 388 occultations
Worldwide events (4) for occultations by Pluto and its moons to mag. 14;
these involve distant Solar System occultations, many also predicted by the 
Lucky Star Project.
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Visit IOTAs main page for occultations by main-belt asteroids to learn sbout 
the many occultations by other small bodies in the Solar System. It has links
to other pages, including occultations by near-Earth asteroids, by special main 
belt asteroids, and by Trojan asteroids.
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David and Joan Dunham, 2022 February 4 (new) and June 28, July 5, and September 3 and 21 (updated)
e-mail:  dunham@starpower.net
cell phone:  301-526-5590