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In order to coordinate the observations of Dionysus, and continuously report about the progress and findings of the performed measurements, we plan to collect and analyze all available data and post the results on these pages. The final aim is to compile a comprehensive study for this interesting object as a joint paper by all contributing observers and co-workers.

Observers planning to participate in this campaign are kindly asked to contact one of us to inform about planned observations (give date, site, instrumentation to be used); this information will be put into this page as soon as we receive it. In order to speed up the data compilation, for each night of observation please specify date, site, instrumentation used, filter(s), observer, followed by the datapoints as times and magnitudes. Please specify whether times are light-time corrected and whether the magnitudes are reduced to 1 AU.

The predicted epochs for the events are given in this table. The observed occultation events have a duration of about 2 hours, so that the coverage of one rotation cycle of 2.7 hours should be sufficient to describe the events. A daily ephemeris, provided by the M.P.C. can be found here.


This campaign is organized by

Stefano Mottola and Gerhard Hahn


Small Bodies Group
DLR - Institute of Planetary Exploration
Berlin-Adlershof, Germany