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The Occultation Section of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand (RASNZ) is pleased to announce that the Thirteenth Trans-Tasman Symposium on Occultations (TTSO13) will be held in May 2019, in conjunction with the 2019 RASNZ Conference.
TTSO13 will feature reviews of recent occultation activity and results, data reduction methods and techniques, updated information on equipment, and sessions devoted to the practical needs of both new and more advanced observers. The meeting will be attended by occultation observers throughout Australia and New Zealand, and we hope to welcome the attendance and participation of observers from further afield.
The RASNZ conference for 2019 will be held in New Plymouth, New Zealand, and hosted by the New Plymouth Astronomical Society. TTSO13 attendees are encouraged to also attend some or all of the RASNZ events. More information on the RASNZ meeting is available on its website.
TTSO13's sessions will follow the RASNZ Conference, starting with presentations on Monday May 20 and ending after lunch on Tuesday May 21.
Registrations for TTSO13 will be done via the RASNZ website.
If you wish to give a presentation or run a workshop at TTSO13, please contact Murray Forbes at murray_forbes@xtra.co.nz
The entire TTSO13 meeting will be webcast using MeetCheap. The webcast will commence 10 minutes prior to the start of each day's programme as detailed below. You are free to join or depart at any time.
Some instructions on how to use MeetCheap are given below;
Login to MeetCheap using this link https://murray-forbes.myownmeeting.net/. Once the page opens, put your full name or initials in the dialogue box and login . This allows us to see who is actually there. Steve Kerr or S Kerr is preferable than just SteveK. No password is required and the site cookie remembers your login name so subsequent logins only require you clicking 'OK'. The moderator question on the login box must remain as 'NO' otherwise you cannot login. Do not modify that URL in any way as it will not work. It is Java based so some people may have issues but it usually works OK.
| UTC Start | NZST Start | Presenter | Title |
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Sunday May 19 21:00 |
Monday May 20 09:00 |
Dave Herald | Workshop on AOTA - from analysis to reporting |
| 22:30 | 10:30 | Morning Tea | |
| 23:00 | 11:00 | Dave Herald | Workshop on the creation of personal asteroid predictions, and linking them into OccultWatcher |
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Monday May 20 0:00 |
12:00 | Lunch | |
| 0:45 | 12:45 | Group Photo | |
| 1:00 | 13:00 | Dave Herald | Fitting shape models to occultations |
| 1:30 | 13:30 | Steve Kerr | Adventures with Focal Reducers |
| 2:00 | 14:00 | Dave Herald | A summary of global results and best events |
| 2:30 | 14:30 | Steve Kerr | Succession planning - discussion |
| 3:00 | 15:00 | Afternoon tea | |
| 3:30 | 15:30 | Dave Herald | The GPS roll-over issue, and validating time using lunar occultations |
| 4:00 | 16:00 | Everyone | Graham Jones has requested some hand-on guidance on occultations for his astronomy club's occultations group, e.g. setting up their equipment, locating the stars, recording the results, reporting etc. He will bring along everything they use (except the scope). |
| 5:00 | 17:00 | Close of Day 1 | |
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Monday May 20 21:00 |
Tuesday May 21 9:00 |
Brian Loader | Recent reports of double star occultations |
| 21:30 | 9:30 | Bill Hanna | Setting Up a Remotely-Controlled Observatory |
| 22:00 | 10:00 | Steve Kerr | Review of recent asteroidal events |
| 22:30 | 10:30 | Morning Tea | |
| 23:00 | 11:00 | Martin Unwin | Karearea Observatory: Tracking occultations from 45 S |
| 23:20 | 11:20 | Bill Hanna | Occultations in Support of Spacecraft Missions |
| 23:40 | 11:40 | Steve Kerr | Upcoming occultation opportunities |
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Tuesday May 21 0:00 |
12:00 | Close of TTSO13 |