It's old, but how about the SAO Atlas & catalog. It goes to something like 7th Mag, so there are lots to pick from.
-John ========== > On 1/26/12 2:55 PM, Jim Palfreyman wrote: >> As a reasonably experienced occultation observer (and the very reason I >> got >> into being a time-nut - so I could time these observations), the main >> problem is that the number of binocular-observable occultations is >> actually >> quite rare. When the star appears or disappears behind the bright limb >> it >> is actually hard to see - even if the star is very bright. When the moon >> is >> nearly full, even disappearances behind the dark limb are hard. > > Yes, that's what I observed when I was trying it a while ago.. > >> >> So ideally you want bright star disappearences on a dark limb with a >> moon >> before first quarter. (Last quarter as well - but then it's a >> reappearance >> and you don't quite know where to look). > > that would sort of limit you to 1 week out of 4. But better than > nothing, for a technique that requires no outside assistance. > >> >> This limits the number of bright stars quite drastically. And then you >> have >> clouds... >> > > Yeah, that is something I don't have a feel for.. How many stars are > candidates? I assume you could get a moon RA/declination list, and then > run that against the star list. > > This is one of those things that I was hoping there's probably > someone who has a program that can do the search trivially. > > I have a moon ephemeris, but I haven't found a convenient star catalog > (something in ASCII that has ID, RA, Dec, Mag would be nice) > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
