On 21 Nov 2007, at 00:13, Kurt Fisher wrote:

Looks like this was bad call on my part. To observe lunar occultations, it appears that there needs to be a dark limb on the side of the occulted star.

Actually, the bright limb of the Moon covering a star or (or planet or minor planet) is still called an occultation. But they can also be hard to see especially with fainter stars. This month's Regulus grazing occultation was against a bright limb and thus was not nearly as visually appealing as the ones I've seen against dark limbs. Unfortunately the brightest star being occulted from here in N. Utah the morning of the 24th will only be about 3.5. So, while it might be visible in a scope I don't know that it would be worth the effort.

It should still make for a good asthetic picture opportunity.

Agreed. Last night's SLAS speaker came to advanced training after the meeting and a few of us spoke with him about trying to arrange to get 2 widely separated (ie. Hawaii and Utah) scopes to take pictures of the Moon at the same time during a Pleiades occultation and later viewing the pictures using stereo viewers to see the 3D effect. patrick