The star catalog specifically designed for lunar occultations is the XZ (I'm guessing it stands for eXtended Zodiacal) Catalog from the US Naval Observatory. It's based on the earlier ZC and covers the band of brighter stars that can be occulted by the moon. Simbad should have these catalogs.
Aart Olsen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Albertson" <albertson.ch...@gmail.com> To: j...@quikus.com, "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <time-nuts@febo.com> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 10:42:00 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] telling time without a clock "simbad" is a catalog of catalogs with a built in web based search engine. It is pretty much what "everyone" uses to search. You can define a shape and ask for all objects that meet some criteria that are within that shape. Other software can plot the result for you as a chart If it is not in Simbad you have likely discovered something new. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/ _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
