Lunar Occultations as a Simple Tool for High Angular Resolution Astronomy

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Aug 1999

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Research Amateur Astronomy in the VLT Era, Solar Eclipse August 1999 Symposium held at ESO, Garching, Germany, August 7-13, 1999

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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At the turn of the millennium, modern astronomy is seeing the creation of several new impressive facilities. Among them, large telescopes and long baseline interferometers are beginning to break the limitations imposed by seeing and to push our angular resolution limits at the level of the millisecond of arc. In this race for the state-of-the-art in angular resolution, one should not forget the considerable aid which has been provided for some decades by the more humble technique of lunar occultations. Although burdened with obvious limitations in the choice of the sources, this latter method has two main features that can make it attractive for the modern amateur astronomer: it is simple, and can be implemented also at realtively small telescopes.

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