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Solar System Occultation Predictions Using Automated Microdensitometry Techniques

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

P. J. Shelus  and
G. F. Benedict
P. J. Shelus
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Austin
G. F. Benedict
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Austin

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The development of automatic, computer-controlled, electronic equipment, under the direction of an intelligent user, has significantly affected the output of scientific knowledge from astronomical research. This increased output is as much a result of the easing and/or elimination of heretofore tedious tasks as it is a result of vast increases in data acquisition rates via observing systems which make more efficient use of in-coming electromagnetic radiation. One such automated system (Shelus et al, 1977) has been implemented by the present authors to predict occultations of stars by Solar System objects. In the past these predictions have been a time consuming task which was made even more onerous since only a very few observable phenomena were found. Perhaps of even more importance is that, since candidate objects to be occulted typically were obtained from star catalogs, such a search was incomplete. Note that phenomena involving stars fainter than normal catalog limits are certainly relevant in the cases of Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, minor planets and the natural satellites of the major planets.

Type
Part III: Ephemerides, Equinox and Occultations
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 81: Dynamics of the Solar System , 1979 , pp. 151 - 156
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1979 

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