The Occultation Group at UVA

This summer, members of the Occultation Group traveled to Colorado for the annual IOTA conference and an exciting occultation!

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).