I recorded an approximate 4 second occultation by minor planet (1166) Sakuntala at 04:24 this (Friday) morning from the ATMoB Ed Knight Observatory. Equipment included the EKO C14, a Supercircuits PC164EX2 camera and a BlackBox Sprite GPS-based video time inserter. Exact times of this occultation were; D: 08:24:38.969 UT R: 08:24:43.700 UT 1166 Sakuntala is [...]

This project was driven out of necessity. Several factors make it challenging to record occultation timings, and a couple more so in the New England winters. Let me start with an overview of the process setting up before and tearing down after capturing lunar grazes and stellar occultations.   First, one has to assemble the [...]