Prepointing for Occultations


JOURNAL OF OCCULTATION AND ECLIPSE (JOE); ISSN 2522-7955; No. 2, 2015



J. Talbot1


1RASNZ Occultation Section, Waikanae Beach, New Zealand; john.talbot@xtra.co.nz


Abstract

Prepoint verb. - to point telescope at a point in the sky where an event is predicted to occur at some time in the future. A technique that is particularly suited to observing with mounts that are not perfectly aligned or do not have accurate pointing ability (eg Dobsonian, mobile observation). It helps to have driven RA axis.


Keywords: Occultation


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