occulations?

[algol]

how often do occulations of planets by the moon occur guys, i've seen the video of saturn being occulted by the moon from 2007 and was wandering when the next one of a planet is?

cheers again guys and gals

[Casus belli]

I cant find anything after a quick google but this looks like an ok site.

http://www.popastro.com/home.htm

[Talitha]

I did a 5 year 'events' search for London in my SkyTools program, and Jupiter will be occulted by the Moon on 14 July 2012... no results for Saturn.

[algol]

thanks tal, so at least i've got somethin to look forward to lol

[ringz]

It can be fun viewing star occultations as well as planetary ones. I remember watching several stars being occulted by a totally eclipsed moon a few years ago.

Here's a link to some occultation prediction software, it's a big download but worth it if you find that you would like to have a go.

< http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/occult4.htm >

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Martyn

[algol]

cheers martyn so does this do occulations of stars and planets etc by the moon?

[ringz]

I think it goes even further than that, it does occultations by asteroids.

I haven't used this version of the software though so I don't know if anything has changed from version 3

I have never seen an asteroid occultation, popastro used to make announcements in their weekly newsletter but the weather was never clear.

< http://www.popastro.com/sections/occ/asterocc.htm >

I remember them announcing an occultation of a star by Saturn, apparently it was going to pass through the ring system. Missed that one as well

Oh to be living somewhere that has cooperative skies.

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Martyn

[algol]

i know how you feel, was really down that i missed the total lunar eclipse due to this gorgeous weather we have

[Stephen Green]

With occulations with stars you have to be with in very tight viewing areas at my AS club we have a ex RGO man who works these predictions

out as a culb I have done a few, We have people with stop watches timeing the whole advent, then he sends the results of :sunny: :sunny:

Stephen