[vsnet-chat 3489] delta Scorpii : Lunar Occultations table

[no name <crawl@zoom.co.uk>]

Because I think everybody is only thinking about this from their own
lat&long at the mo', plus folk forgetting that Lunar occultations of a
star come in bunches, I've dug out an old piece of software and
generated the following table for the next batch of delta Scorpii Lunar
occultations.

I've removed the "silly" ones where the sun is above the horizon...

...the following carries day-month-year; UT time at mid-event;
percentage phase with + meaning waxing and - meaning waning; Longitude
of _best_ viewing site [I'm afraid I can't remember the convention re
+/- and E/W on Longitude!!!]; Latitude of _best_ viewing site; Altitude
of sun at that time at that site; Altitude of delta Scorpii at that time
at that site; Closest approach of delta Scorpii to centre of Lunar disc
at mid-time [though the number of 0s here is a bit suspicious].

Not necessarily authoritative, but should be okay as a starting point. 
Even of you are not near the best viewing site, check the UT time and
altitude of the event, as each will be visible from a large area.

Cheers

John


> dd/mm/yyyy UT      Phase  Long    Lat   SunAlt StarAlt Sepn
> 
> 02/09/2003 23h 08m  44+   -051.7  +62.5  -04    0      11'
> 12/03/2004 09h 21m  66-   -069.6  -10.6  -21   78       0'
> 08/04/2004 16h 07m  87-   +160.5  -18.2  -48   85       0'
> 06/05/2004 01h 18m  98-   -004.4  -19.3  -75   86       0'
> 02/06/2004 12h 00m  99+   +168.1  -19.0  -79   86       0'
> 29/06/2004 22h 28m  90+   -016.9  -23.0  -53   88       0'
> 27/07/2004 07h 09m  73+   -176.8  -33.4  -26   79       0'
> 03/02/2005 16h 44m  35-   +073.1  -62.2  -06    0       5'

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