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Grazing Lunar Occultations - Still between Science and Beauty?
JOA 2020, Vol. 10, No. 4, Page 11 Author(s): Eberhard RiedelAbstract: Observations of total and grazing lunar occultations became less popular following precisely available lunar topography data through the Kaguya- and LRO-missions and incredibly increased stellar position accuracy through the Gaia-mission. The amateur astronomer’s contribution in this field is no longer needed. But these occultation phenomena still have their natural beauty so quite a few amateurs still take sometimes tremendous efforts to record these events. As a new focus of this work different ways of exploring stellar systems and atmospheres at the lunar limb come into view. Lunar occultations, beyond being much fun to observe, remain an important educational entrance to astronomy.