Events Page

The Events page lists all known events, in ascending order by geocentric event midtime. Recently-past events are shown with gray text; events older than 3 days have been removed. Note that only events that have been explicitly added are shown; e.g. the vast majority of OccultWatcher Cloud predictions will not be listed. Contact Kai Getrost (on the IOTA or OWCloud email lists) to have an event added. The ability for users to directly add events from OccultWatcher Cloud is planned for a future release.

Highlighted event

The currently-selected event is highlighted with a darker background, and a global map for it is shown to the right (or below). The terminator is shown at event midtime, with the event path (if known) plotted where it intersects Earth. The globe is shown from the point of view of the occulted star (if known); thus areas closer to the edge of the globe will see the event at a lower altitude.

Data fields

For each event, geocentric midtime, object name and number, star id, star magnitude (V band), magnitude drop, and max duration are listed, if known. On narrow displays (e.g. mobile) some columns may collapse to "..." to save space.

Navigating

Clicking/touching a table row, or navigating rows with the up/down arrow or Home/End keys, highlights that event. Further pages of events (if any) can be navigated with the left/right arrow links at the top, or the left/right arrow and PgUp/PgDn keys. On small browsers (e.g. mobile), the table may be scrolled to see all 20 events per page. Clicking an object name link goes to its event page.