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Dave Herald has a long and distinguished association with occultation science as a pioneer in the field and writer of the Occult software package every observer relies on.  Dave received the inaugeral Homer F. DaBoll award for his contribution to occultation observing in 2007.

David and Joan Dunham have spent much of 2015 travelling around Australia and a number of other parts of the world chasing interesting occultations in interesting places - which actually isn't all that different for this Washington DC based couple.  David as founder of IOTA (International Occultation Timing Association) has been instrumental developing much that is modern occultation observing and combined with Joan, they make a formidible observing team.

John Broughton is a Gold Coast based amateur astronomer who has combined his skills as an innovative designer of telescope systems with an impressive record of asteroid discovery and occultation observing.  He was a recipient of a "Gene Shoemaker Near Earth Objects" grant in 2002.

Stephen Russell has been a long standing member of Team Occultation, TTSO and NACAA.

Brian has been actively observing occultations since 1980 as a member of the Occultation Section of the RASNZ. From 1985 to 1996 he worked at the USNO Black Birch Astrometric station in New Zealand. Since 2007 he has been receiving observations of double star occultations from observers in a number of countries worldwide. The collation of these observations has resulted in a number of papers being published in the Journal of Double Star Observations. Over the last few years, Brian has been coordinating the global effort to use lunar occultation observations to discover and monitor close binary stars.  Brian was made a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand in 2015.

John Talbot is a Wellington, New Zealand based observer and coordinator of planetary occultation reports and results for the RASNZ Occultation Section.

Stephen Kerr has been observing occultations since he was 12 years old and, while the pressures of family and career make it difficult, he continues to observe from his backyard in Rockhampton, Queensland.  In February 2015, Stephen was appointed the Director of the RASNZ Occultation Section.

David and Joan Dunham have spent much of 2015 travelling around Australia and a number of other parts of the world chasing interesting occultations in interesting places - which actually isn't all that different for this Washington DC based couple.  David as founder of IOTA (International Occultation Timing Association) has been instrumental developing much that is modern occultation observing and combined with Joan, they make a formidible observing team.

Dave Herald has a long and distinguished association with occultation science as a pioneer in the field and writer of the Occult software package every observer relies on.  Dave received the inaugeral Homer F. DaBoll award for his contribution to occultation observing in 2007.

Bruno Sicardy of Paris Observatory heads up an international program using occultations by outer solar system objects to study their properties.

John Talbot is a Wellington, New Zealand based observer and coordinator of planetary occultation reports and results for the RASNZ Occultation Section.

Stephen Kerr has been observing occultations since he was 12 years old and, while the pressures of family and career make it difficult, he continues to observe from his backyard in Rockhampton, Queensland.  In February 2015, Stephen was appointed the Director of the RASNZ Occultation Section.

Fascinated by nature and the night sky since a young age, Peter has been involved in amateur astronomy as a visual observer of most things for many years. Located in the southern outskirts of Sydney, his principal interest is the observation of variable stars.

Andrew Pearce has been visually observing variable stars from WA on and off since 1982 with simple equipment with less than ideal skies within 7 kms of the Perth CBD.