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Observation teams, field equipment, results and press coverage from the IOTA India archive.

Recovered archive

Historical gallery

IOTA India observers with telescopes and laptops at a night observing site — Field observation
Occultation observing team, 2020
Multiple telescope and computer stations prepared at a dark-sky site.

Three observers seated beside telescopes and laptops at night — Field observation
Observers at their stations
A multi-instrument field setup ready for synchronized recording.

Telescopes, cameras, power equipment and laptops arranged outdoors — Equipment
Portable recording setup
Telescopes and capture computers assembled for an occultation campaign.

Jyotirvidya Parisanstha and IOTA observers gathered in Pune — Community
JVP and IOTA team, Pune

International occultation observers gathered with equipment near Delhi — Collaboration
Delhi occultation team

Astronomy capture software showing asteroid Dione and HIP 12740 — Observation result
Dione and HIP 12740

Newspaper feature titled To hunt an asteroid — Press archive
“To hunt an asteroid”
A 2019 feature on IOTA India’s citizen-science work.

Newspaper report about the 22 Kalliope occultation — Press archive
22 Kalliope campaign
Coverage of coordinated observations from multiple locations.

Video archive

Dione occultation recording

Current website

Recent observation highlights

Profile reconstruction

Asteroid 106 Dione

Multiple timed chords combine to constrain the asteroid's projected profile.

Browse observation records

Astronomical star trail observation image from the IOTA India archive — Field observation
Timed stellar tracks
Observation imagery from the existing IOTA India archive.
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Three-dimensional asteroid shape model with occultation chords — Shape modelling
Occultation chords in context
Timing measurements can be compared with shape models to improve physical constraints.
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