Virginia Association of Astronomical Societies (VAAS) meeting on Sat. October 6 - Updated 2007 Oct. 15

The Power Point file for my talk on observing occultations, and links to the videos that I showed, are given

The file for the presentation that I gave on observing occultations 
at the meeting of the Virginia Association of Astronomical Societies 
is here (14.5 megabytes).  I showed videos of the occultation of a star whose close 
duplicity was discovered during the occultation by the asteroid 
(99) Dike on 2005 December 1 recorded in MD & VA that you can read 
about and see here, and about the spectacular graze of another close 
double star, mu Arietis, observed in Texas in June.  I also showed 
one of the video segments of the graze of 59 Leonis during the total 
lunar eclipse last March recorded from the Virginia part of the 
Delmarva; that event was also observed by Richmond Astronomical 
Society members north of Richmond.  Due to forecast dew (and 
probable fog), I did not try to observe the occultation by Prymno 
early Sunday morning, spending time instead in the evening at the 
well-attended Northern Virginia Astronomy Club Star Gaze that 
followed the VAAS meeting; so far, I have received no reports of 
observations of that occultation, and airport surface reports 
indicated low clouds, fog, or heavy dew across southern Virginia at 
the time of the event.  At the Star Gaze, John from the Richmond 
Astronomical Society took this picture of me looking through his 
telescope at the close double star alpha Piscium; you can see the 
stars of Aries and Triangulum above me. 
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David Dunham, 2007 Oct. 15, 17h UT
cell phone 301-526-5590, e-mail dunham@starpower.net
office e-mail david.dunham@jhuapl.edu