ASTRAEA OCCULTATION ATTEMPT IN BOSNIA AND

HERCEGOVINA JUNE 6, 2008

PAUL D. MALEY

IOTA ANNUAL MEETING

ORLANDO FL

11/21/09

THE REGION

ETHNIC DISTRIBUTION

OLD TOWN SARAJEVO

MOSQUE

SCARS OF WAR

WAR MEMORIAL 1992-1995

WHERE WWI ‘STARTED’-JUNE 28, 1914

ASSASSINATIONOF ARCHDUKE

FERDINAND

SARAJEVO OBSERVATORY BEFORE

8m Dome

40cm Cass refl./Wide field astrograph

Observatory in 2008

Recently cleared of mines

SARAJEVO OBSERVATORY viewed from the city

OBSERVATORY VIEW-2

LARGEST SCOPE IN BOSNIA?

FACULTY OF MATHEMATICS

ARRIVAL IN SARAJEVO

REGIONAL ISSUES

MY HOTEL

MAIN STREET

MORTAR SHELL IMPACT

TRAM SYSTEM; GAS>$8./GALLON

KONJIC, HERZEGOVINA SKY

SARAJEVO TEAM

TEAM 1

• PAUL MALEY

• Lagumdija Armin, Teaching assistent - Departmant of Physics TECH

• Zoranic Irma, Physics student

• Glamocic Adnan, Physics student

TEAM 2:

• Sadovic Bakir, Physics teacher

• Avdic Damir, Physics teacher

TEAM 3

• Mujic Nedim, Teaching assistent - Departmant of Physics

• Mindoljevic Valentina, Physics teacher

• Causevic Naida, Physics student

• Lejlic Ajla, Physics student

• Subasic Adela, Physics student

• Tahirovic Elvedin, Physics student

PREP 1

PREP 2

PREP 3

SATELLITE CHECK

ASTRAEA STATIONS

• 1. SITE 1 MALEY + 10-INCH F/5 + WATEC

• 2. SITE 2 SADOVICH + 6 INCH DOBSONIAN

• 3. SITE 3 MUJIC + 8 INCH F/4 + PC164

WEATHER

• 100%THUNDERSTORM FORECAST

• AIRPORT WEATHER FORECASTERS CONSULTED

• TEST RUN ON JUNE 5

• SKY CLEARED

• HIGH HUMIDITY

RESULTS

White out conditions caused by a huge spike in humidity. No workaround possible due to lack of heaters.

No data obtained at all stations.

Sky clear but path suffered a big shift.

HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii (AP) -- The Air Force said the first crash of a B-2 stealth bomber was caused by moisture in sensors and estimated the loss of the aircraft at $1.4 billion.

The Air Force stopped flying B-2 stealth bombers for two months after the crash.

The crash probably could have been avoided if knowledge of a technique to evaporate the moisture had been disseminated throughout the B-2 program, Maj. Gen. Floyd L. Carpenter, who headed an accident investigation board, said Thursday.

A technique learned by some two years ago that had gone widely unknown and unadopted probably would have prevented the crash, Carpenter said. The technique essentially heats the sensors and evaporates any moisture before data calibrations.

RWM (MOSCOW) 5.0MHZ

• FAINT SIGNALS

• BLACKOUT: 11:00PM-11:10PM

• EVENT WINDOW: 11:00-11:04PM

• ALL OTHER FREQUENCIES: NO RECEPTION OR LOCAL STATION OVERRIDE

OCCULTATION OF A 10.5 MAG STAR BY (96)AEGLE

ON 9/8/09

PATH

PATH-2

PATH-3

MY HOTEL

SERBIAN BORDER

SKOPJE AIRPORT

RESULTS

• THREE TEAMS DEPLOYED

• SKY COVER COMPLETELY OVERCAST

WITH SOME RAIN

∙I WENT TO SERBIA, ALBANIA, KOSOVO

AND BULGARIA

END