The Occultation Group at UVA

In May, two Occultation Group members presented a poster at the Virginia Academy of Sciences (VAS), detailing a stellar occultation by (623) Chimaera.

In March 2026, eight Occultation Group observers traveled to New South Wales, Australia, to hunt an occultation by a small moon of Jupiter.

In January, the Occultation group traveled to the United Arab Emirates to occult (269) Justitia, a target of the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA).

In late September, the Occultation Group organized a campaign to characterize the shape of Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt target (623) Chimaera, including a eight telescope deployment by the group.