Jupiter ephemeris in
J2000 or
B1950 coordinates
Digitized Sky Survey picture
(with grid overlay)
Predictions for Specific Locations
Graphical predictions have been prepared for several observatories:
IRTF, Mauna Kea, Hawaii
[GIF]
[Postscript],
Kitt Peak Observatory
[GIF]
[Postscript],
Lick Observatory
[GIF]
[Postscript]
McDonald Observatory
[GIF],
[Postscript]
Palomar Observatory
[GIF]
[Postscript]
Apache Point Observatory
[Postscript]
Bosque Alegre Observatory (Cordoba U. Argentina)
[Postscript]
For comparison, a prediction using a star position from the Hipparchos
Input Catalog was done for
McDonald Observatory
E-mail Doug Mink to add your
observatory to this list.
Times of the occultation have been
tabulated for various cities
in the western United States, Canada, Mexico, and Central America and
members of the
International Occultation Timing Association.
References
The original prediction of this event was in the 1987 paper,
Occultations of SAO Stars and IRAS Point Sources by Planets: 1988-1999,
by Douglas J. Mink,
presented as a poster talk at the 1987 meeting of the Division for
Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society in Pasadena,
California.
The abstract
is in the Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
volume 19, page 1150 (1987). This event can be found in tables of
Occultations of IRAS Point Sources by Jupiter
and Occultations of SAO Stars by Jupiter
at this Web site.
For a paper I worked on for, but did not present at, the 1994 AAS/DPS
meeting,
Occultations of Catalog Stars by Jupiter: 1994-2000,
predictions of occultations of
PPM Catalog stars,
Hipparchos Input Catalog stars,
Preliminary Tycho Catalog stars,
IRAS Point Sources, and
SAO Catalog stars were tabulated.
To see the importance of this event in perspective, check out
100 Years of Occultations: A Statistical View
by Douglas J. Mink, presented at the 1995 meeting of the Division on Dynamical
Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society in Yosemite National Park,
in April 1995.
For that presentation, occultations of PPM stars by Jupiter 1950-2050 were
tabulated and
plotted.
Last update 6 March 1996 by Doug Mink
