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Lunar Limb Profiles from Occultation Observations

M O O N L I M B

An introduction to this scientific project by   Dietmar Büttner

Purpose With the   MOONLIMB   project new lunar limb data are obtained from occultation observations. These data are important to improve the reliability of grazing occultation predictions.
Author All software components and calculations are developed by   Dietmar Büttner   from Chemnitz, Germany.
Email:   info@iota-es.de
History The first version of   MOONLIMB   was released in 1997. Data calculated from this version are used by   Eberhard Riedel   in his graze prediction program   GRAZEREG.
The latest version   MOONLIMB - ML2004B   was completed in February 2004. These data are currently used in various research projects by the author.
Description A short description of the latest version   MOONLIMB - ML2004B   is available   here.
Demos Four examples for profile plots with   MOONLIMB / LIMBVIEW 1.2 :
Plot with MOONLIMB/Limbview 1.2

MOONLIMB data alone

Plot with MOONLIMB/Limbview 1.2 compared with Watts Charts data

MOONLIMB data compared with Watts Charts data

Plot-1 with MOONLIMB/Limbview 1.2 compared with ACLPPP data

MOONLIMB data compared with ACLPPP data (1)

Plot-2 with MOONLIMB/Limbview 1.2 compared with ACLPPP data

MOONLIMB data compared with ACLPPP data (2)