Occultations and Grazes during the October 27th/28th Total Lunar Eclipse - new 2004 October 13

Lunar Meteor Impacts might also be recorded

Occultations (total and grazing) of many stars will occur during the 
total lunar eclipse of October 27/28 (28th UT; evening of Oct. 27 in 
the Americas) for observers in most of the Western Hemisphere, 
Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.  Eberhard Riedel's map 
shows the paths of all grazing occultations of stars brighter than 
mag. 10.1 that will occur against the umbra during the partial or 
total phases of the eclipse.  Numbers at the ends of the path 
identify the grazing occultations that are listed here.  
Detailed predictions for individual paths might be obtained from 
Eberhard Riedel at E_Riedel@msn.com or, for events in the Americas, 
from an IOTA grazing occultation coordinator (contact David Dunham 
at dunham@starpower.net ), or compute your own predictions using 
David Herald's WinOccult program available from IOTA's Web site.

The eclipse also provides an opportunity to record lunar meteor 
impact flashes during totality, and possibly for several minutes
before and after; try to video record as much of the Moon's disk 
that is in the umbra as possible.  If you have a relatively narrow 
field of view, image the darkest part of the umbra.  Some more 
information about occultations during the eclipse is in an 
Occultation Newsletter article here.

Walter Morgan has planned an expedition for a grazing occultation of 
8.9-mag. SAO 92827 in the Sacramento Valley, but it will be 
difficult due to the low altitude.  Details are here.