UT | NZ time | Eastern Australian Time | Title | Presenter | abstract |
12/04/2020 23:00 | 13/04/2020 11:00 AM | 13/04/2020 9:00 AM | Asteroidal occultation results for Australia and New Zealand for 2019. | Steve Kerr | Review of some of the best results and overall observer statistics |
12/04/2020 23:30 | 13/04/2020 11:30 AM | 13/04/2020 9:30 AM | The NASA Educational Outreach Program in support of New Horizons, imaging Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359 to demonstrate stellar parallax. | Bill Hanna | |
12/04/2020 23:45 | 13/04/2020 11:45 AM | 13/04/2020 9:45 AM | TT~14 feed and Generating Personal Predictions for OccultWatcher | Dave Gault | |
13/04/2020 0:00 | 13/04/2020 12:00 PM | 13/04/2020 10:00 AM | break | ||
13/04/2020 0:30 | 13/04/2020 12:30 PM | 13/04/2020 10:30 AM | Issues with the use of a QHY174M-GPS camera | Bill Hanna | |
13/04/2020 1:00 | 13/04/2020 1:00 PM | 13/04/2020 11:00 AM | Analysis of Occult Watcher event probabilities | Martin Unwin | |
13/04/2020 1:15 | 13/04/2020 1:15 PM | 13/04/2020 11:15 AM | Astrometry from asteroidal occultations | Dave Herald | A run-through of the issues in deriving precise astrometry from asteroidal occultations |
13/04/2020 1:45 | 13/04/2020 1:45 PM | 13/04/2020 11:45 AM | A first look at PyMovie | Martin Unwin | I was motivated to install PyMovie in August 2019 after failing to obtain a satisfactory Tangra light curve from an video record severely affected by wind shake. This talk describes my first impressions of PyMovie, which - in this instance - was able to extract a usable light curve for the relevant time interval. |
13/04/2020 2:00 | 13/04/2020 2:00 PM | 13/04/2020 12:00 PM | lunch break | ||
13/04/2020 3:00 | 13/04/2020 3:00 PM | 13/04/2020 1:00 PM | Review of the Asteroidal Occultation dataset | Dave Gault | |
13/04/2020 3:30 | 13/04/2020 3:30 PM | 13/04/2020 1:30 PM | Shape models | Dave Herald | A run-through of issues associated with shape models of asteroids |
13/04/2020 4:00 | 13/04/2020 4:00 PM | 13/04/2020 2:00 PM | Ultra-Portable Telescopes for Occultation Expeditions | John Broughton | Recent developments in folding alt-alt designs |
13/04/2020 4:30 | 13/04/2020 4:30 PM | 13/04/2020 2:30 PM | Adventures with Focal Reducers | Steve Kerr | A quick summary of focal reducers as used by occultation observers - what they can do and what they can't! |
13/04/2020 5:00 | 13/04/2020 5:00 PM | 13/04/2020 3:00 PM | break | ||
13/04/2020 5:15 | 13/04/2020 5:15 PM | 13/04/2020 3:15 PM | Phemu 2021 | Dave Herald | Overview of the forthcoming mutual events of Jupiter's satellites |
13/04/2020 5:30 | 13/04/2020 5:30 PM | 13/04/2020 3:30 PM | Horizons predictions | Dave Herald | Demo of using JPL horizons for last-minute updates, and general predictions |
13/04/2020 6:00 | 13/04/2020 6:00 PM | 13/04/2020 4:00 PM | Highlights of double star occultations over the last year | Brian Loader | A look at some double star solutions using 2019 observations, and the effect of observer position. Also a few statistics on reports received for 2019 and the observers involved |
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13/04/2020 6:15 | 13/04/2020 6:15 PM | 13/04/2020 4:15 PM | Interesting minor planet occultations over Australia/NZ for the next year | Steve Kerr | |
13/04/2020 6:30 | 13/04/2020 6:30 PM | 13/04/2020 4:30 PM | end |