Contributed by Guy Nason, Toronto Centre

How to Observe and Record an Asteroidal Occultation

There are four different methods that can be used to observe and make a record of an asteroidal occultation. Each has advantages and disadvantages and all have varying degrees of scientific value. They are:

Reporting Variable-Star Observations

Introducing Variable Stars

by Chris Fleming, London Centre

2018-12-09 update

To get everyone involved and excited about the project, we are making images taken by the DSLR available now!

Here is the link:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mrXIt3I6j5KZ6xpYgJsWuXmWjaMx99al

2019-02-17 update (pm)

The uncharacteristic rain/snow weather in California continues. It has been hampering our efforts of training and tweaking software. However, there have been a few moments to capture some quick images. Here is a shot of supernova SN2019np in NGC3254 taken on the morning of Feb 8, just before dawn when it was low in the western sky. The supernova was discovered by Japanese amateur Koichi Itagaki on Jan 9. It is currently at mag 14.0 and fading. This is a stack of several 2 minute unguided images.

L’astronomie amateur

Sur le cherche-étoiles, une dizaine d’objets célestes sont entourés d’un cercle. Il s’agit d’objets que l’on peut observer à l’œil nu ou au jumelle.

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