The table below
(check here for key)
Urg: Degree of urgency of the observation. A: High. B: Low.
Day: Day of occultation.
UTC: UTC of occultation in Madrid (in black), Barcelona
(green),
La Laguna (red)
and Marseille (blue).
Note that some events might be visible in some places and not in others (check column "OLED").
Star (WDS): ID number of star in WDS (Washington Double Star) catalogue.
RA: J2000.0 right ascension (hh mm ss.ss).
DEC: J2000.0 declination (dd mm ss.s).
Mags: Magnitude of components and total magnitude.
Year: Year of last observation.
# obs: Total number of observations.
Sep: Last measurement of separation between components, in arcseconds.
PA: Last measurement of position angle, in degrees.
Type: Type of occultation. I: ingress. E: egress.
Flux: Fractional change of flux in reference to combined flux.
The two values refer to ingress or egress of each component.
Illum: % fraction of illuminated area of Moon (positive, waxing Moon; negative, waning Moon).
Def: Distance from contact to Moon terminator, in arcseconds.
γ: Position angle of contact in ° (from N to E).
hSun: Height of Sun above horizon in reference location at contact time, in °.
hMoon: Height of Moon above horizon in reference location at contact time, in °.
OLED: Circumstances for OLED observers with a user acronym and for different European and Northern African cities .
shows the occultations of the WDS programmme for JANUARY 26.
Please report observations by writing an email to
enrique.velasco@uam.es.
For more accurate predictions on these occultations for your position, visit
this link
and choose "WDS (double stars)" as the "Object catalogue". To quickly check for
visibility of an occultation from your particular station, click on
column "OLED", and look for your acronym.
