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<div>Just in case any of you is interested on this, or if you know someone who might help in the amateur astronomy community, please let me share the email that I sent yesterday to amateur astronomy associations and observatories in NSW about participating
in an proAM (Professional-Amateur) astronomy project aiming to observe a very rare occultation of a star by Kallichore, a dwarf satellite around Jupiter, on the night of 18 March 2026, 22:35pm.</div>
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<div>Please, do not hesitate to share this email with anybody interested.</div>
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<div>Although MQ Observatory is out of the current expected shadow path, we will join the campaign just in case, as the predicted border is only ~20-30 km away from us.</div>
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I think many of you know me, just in case, I’m Ángel López-Sánchez, Spanish-Australian astronomer working at Macquarie University, currently also being the “MQ Observatory Academic Lead”. Among the (perhaps too many) things I try to do for astronomy research,
one of my favourite topics is motivating amateur astronomers to participate in ProAm (Professional - Amateur) research projects (e.g., I was the Chair of the ProAm Commission of the Astronomical Society of Spain between 2016 and 2020). </div>
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Today I’m contacting you because there is a unique opportunity for NSW astronomers to participate in a quite interesting ProAm research project. </div>
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<div>I’ve been approached by a research team in Spain (a really good one, José Luis Ortiz is well-known for the controversy over the discovery of Haumea , see <a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/DbxtCANpgjClQ4l1LincRIGEeQB?domain=en.wikipedia.org">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversy_over_the_discovery_of_Haumea)</a> regarding a very rare occultation
of a star by Kallichore, a dwarf satellite around Jupiter, on the night of 18 March 2026, 22:35pm, and the very narrow shadow crosses NSW (see maps, includes Dubbo, Mudgee, Gosford and Woy Woy) and they are asking help of amateur astronomers to try to get
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<div>The research team has asked me to please contact as many amateur astronomers / amateur associations / observatories in NSW as possible to try to get observers of this rare occultation, as it could be recorded with telescopes as small as 20cm. </div>
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<div>Please, follow the document attached with all the detailed information.</div>
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<div>Because of procedures, all participants should register their interest in the portal </div>
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<div>where you can find all the details and updates regarding the exact occultation path (just for your reference, a week ago the prediction of the occultation was crossing Siding Spring Observatory and exited land between Newcastle and Taree). </div>
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<div>The online map <a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/VSE5CxngwOfRlkRQnuxSmIyKalz?domain=opop.obspm.fr">https://opop.obspm.fr/media/data/maps/2026/Kallichore/20260318/Kallichore_occultation_map_IAA-CSIC.html</a> is generated from the Occultation Portal prediction and should be used as the reference for coordination.</div>
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<div>Please, if you need more information, do not hesitate to contact the research team:</div>
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<div>José-Luis Ortiz (PI): ortiz@iaa.es</div>
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<div>Yücel Kılıç: ykilic@iaa.es</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
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