Occultations – survey for A Level student

[Thomas Crawford]

Hello. I am interested in occultations and for my Computer Science A Level coursework I’m writing a program to help astronomers study occultation timings by helping them handle the observation data. It will be a desktop app that will allow the user to explore a relational database of minor planets, occultations, and observations. If you have a few moments to complete my survey I would be very grateful. Thank you.

https://us15.list-manage.com/survey?u=f4d49d9526f92114880cb9a2d&id=573ee65ec0&attribution=false

[Tim Haymes]

Hi Thomas,
I have done the survey- most interesting. Do you have that database, or are you hoping to create one ? Our asteroid occultation results are uploaded to either the European database (SODIS), or if a Pro-Am collaboration, we send the raw video data to the “OccultPortal”. I maintain a spreadsheet for the BAA/UK contributions – its just a list of what has been reported and some pictures. You are welcome to explore its content here:
https://www.stargazer.me.uk/AstOccReports.htm

If you know what sort of info you are after, im sure we could help you populate the db for the purpose of the project.

Tim
https://ukoccultations.groups.io/g/main
(Asteroids and Remote Planets Section)

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