Last updated on October 12, 2026.
IOTA/EA FY2026/27 Annual General Meeting was held on August 30, 2025.
The presentation files provided by speakers and meeting minutes are listed here.
Presenation Files
Geneal Meeting
- Accounting report, Budget plan [pdf]; Hayato Watanabe
- Business report [pdf]; , Business plan [pdf] Fumi Yoshida
- Audit report [pdf]; Toshihiro Horaguchi
- Activities and plan of the Departments
- Planetary and asteroidal occultations [pdf]; Kazuhisa Miyashita, Hayato Watanabe
- Lunar occultations [pdf]; Kazuhisa Miyashita, Mitsuru Soma
- Website management [pdf]; Hiroshi Akitaya
- Storage of observation data [pdf]; Hirotomo Noda
- Public Relations and Training [pdf]; Fumi Yoshida
- Local branch; Chilong Lin (National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan)
- Local branch; Wai-Chun Yue (Hong Kong Astronomical Society)
- Local branch; Ye Yuan (Purple Mountain Observatory / Chinese Academy of Sciences)
- Election of New officers
- The other agenda
- Report number of regular members, attendees and power of attnorney Vote (Hayato Watanabe, Tsutomu Hayamizu)
Invited Lecturs
- “The International Occultation Timing Association (IOTA) and the Development of Occultation Science” [pdf] (Dr. David W. Dunham)
Presentations by Participants
- “Best Results of Asteroidal Occultation Observation FY2025/26” (Hayato Watanabe)
- “Collaborative Asteroid Occultation Observations by High School Students in Japan and Thailand” (Kenta Kono, Miyazaki-Kita High School)
- “Exploring the Night Sky: From Star Charts to Telescopes – KUS Occultation Observation Project”; Attakrit Athaphaisal, Kawin Jindawat, Thiwat Eramchoo, Dhammavij Sirithanapipat (Kasetsart University Laboratory School Center for Educational Research and Development; KUS), Hidehito Yamamura
- “Occultation Observer’s Learning and Networking 2026”, Hisashi Kasebe (IOTA/EA)
- “Occultation TYC4082-00763-1 by asteroid (98943) 2001 CC21 (Torifune)”, Miyoshi Ida (JOIN)
- “Phaethon Occultation Observation Campaign in Fall 2026”, Fumi Yoshida (DESTINY+)
Meeting Minutes
Minutes of the IOTA/EA FY2025/26 Annual General Meeting [pdf]
Group Photo on the Zoom Meeting
