Wolfgang Rothe / Dr. Eberhard H. R. Bredner
Germany
IOTA/ES runs a competition YICOM < Yearly Internal Contest of Occultation Measurements> open for all members who observe total occultations of stars by the moon. By this we will support the idea that we need a group of trained observers. –If one ever tries to observe a special event like minor planets occultation, occultations by planet satellites onemust have a great and solid experience handling the equipment. A possible methode to train the practice is observing total occultations.
Wolfgang Rothe (wolfgang.rothe@t-online.de) has offered his assistance
to collect the datas – but in 2002 we had a very poor result. So we use
this opportunity to present YICOM to inform once more a greater public
about this contest.
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