Patrick wrote:
Last night's SLAS speaker came to advanced training after the meeting and a few of us spoke with him about trying to arrange to get 2 widely separated (ie. Hawaii and Utah) scopes to take pictures of the Moon at the same time during a Pleiades occultation and later viewing the pictures using stereo viewers to see the 3D effect.
Yes. Pete Lawrence did a couple of those back in 2003 and 2004 that I did some follow-along working computations on, e.g. - determining the parallax from the subsurface baseline between two widely separated cities. They're fun. http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/LPDP/LPDP-Update2004.html This looks like good chance to due another one - while also taking some pretty pics.
Actually, the bright limb of the Moon covering a star or (or planet or minor planet) is still called an occultation. But they can also be hard to see especially with fainter stars.
Thanks, Patrick. The context of the post and the utah asto wiki entry was detecting the 0.1" split between 16 Tau's components using a light curve derived from video of the occultation. My understanding from the ITOLA handbook is that unless the occulting limb is dark, there is not enough contrast to pull out any meaningful curve. Since you are experienced in these observations, is that correct? - Kurt _______________________________________________ Sent via CSolutions - http://www.csolutions.net