FreeLists / az-observing / [AZ-Observing] Re: Anybody See Saturn Occultation?

["Tom Polakis" <polakis@xxxxxxx>]

The IOTA Web site lists occultations of stars by planets and their moons
for 2002 at:

http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/planets2002/ploccult.htm

Only one event is listed for Jupiter and none for Saturn.  Is there a
better site out there with this information?


I know that Voyager III software, at least, has a conjunction search
feature in which the user inputs a maximum separation and date range.  It
crunches away, and lists all of the close approaches.


I'm pretty sure the Full Moon won't have any effect on the visibility of
the star.  The real difficulty lies in seeing a 10th-magnitude star an
arcsecond away from a 1st-magnitude planet, as several of us observed
Thursday morning.

Tom

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