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Developing an Optical Lunar Occultation Measurement Reduction System for Observations at Kaau Observatory
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Developing an Optical Lunar Occultation Measurement Reduction System for Observations at Kaau Observatory

Abdulrahman A. Malawi
Earth, moon, and planets, Vol.110(3-4), pp.175-183
01/06/2013

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Astronomy & Astrophysics Geology Geosciences, Multidisciplinary Physical Sciences Science & Technology
We present here a detailed explanation of the reduction method that we use to determine the angular diameters of the stars occulted by the dark limb of the moon. This is a main part of the lunar occultation observation program running at King Abdul Aziz University observatory since late 1993. The process is based on the least square model fitting method of analyzing occultation data, first introduced by Nather et al. (Astron. J. 75:963, 1970).

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