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Titan & TYC 1343-1615-1 (first occultation):

NB. sites in parentheses are NOT contacted yet, please provide information on them if you have some.

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Namibia

Symbol	Location	Telescope	Camera	Contacts and/or observers
Wi	Windhoek	* C14 (35-cm), fixed * Three C8 (20-cm), portable	* IOC from Sonja Henke	Sonja Henke
Ni	Niedersachsen	* C8, 20-cm, fixed	???	niedersachsen@natron.net Niedersachsen webpage
He	H.E.S.S. project	* 45-cm ROTSE fixed	* ROTSE camera	Dieter Horns, remote observation dieter.horns@mpi-hd.mpg.de Tel. +49-6221-516 471 H.E.S.S. webpage ROTSE webpage
Ha	Hakos Observatory	* C14 (35-cm), fixed (* 45-cm available? fixed)	* IOC Hans Bode #1	Karl-Ludwig Bath k.-l.bath@t-online.de Tel. +49-(0)76 41 34 92 Hakos International Observatory webpage
Ti	Tivoli	* C11 (27.5-cm) fixed	* IOC Hans Bode #2	Contact: Reinhold & Kirsten Schreiber Tel. +264-62-581 405 tivoli@iway.na Tivoli webpage Observer: Hans Bode H.-J.B@t-online.de Tel. +49-511- 362 13 12
So	Sossusvlei	* M10 (25-cm), fixed	???	???
	South of Namibia	* C11 (27.5-cm), portable from Hakos * M10 (25-cm), portable from Hans Bode * Three portable C8 (20-cm) from Sonja Henke ??? * One C8 From A.&C. Tegtmeier ???	* IOC Hans Bode #3 on M10 * IOC Bruno Sicardy on C11 * IOC Mike Kretlow on one C8 * Other cameras ???	Jens & Heiko Lüdemann, Mike Kretlow, Andreas and Carmen Tegtmeier, Stéfan Renner, Françoise Roques, Bruno Sicardy, others???

Personnel and available cameras:
* Karl-Ludwig Bath: digital camcorder, k.-l.bath@t-online.de, arrival Nov. 06, departure Nov. 26
* Hans and Fabian Bode: 3 IOC, H.-J.B@t-online.de, arrival Nov. 07, departure Nov. 15
* Mike Kretlow: 1 IOC + 1 Toucan ???, mkretlow@gmx.de arrival Nov. 07, departure Nov. 21 or 28
* Sonja Henke: 1 IOC
* Dieter Horns: 1 ROTSE camera, dieter.horns@mpi-hd.mpg.de
* Stefan Renner:stefan.renner@obspm.fr, arrival Nov. 07, departure Nov. 17
* Françoise Roques:francoise.roques@obspm.fr arrival Nov. 09, departure Nov. 17
* Bruno Sicardy: 1 IOC, bruno.sicardy@obspm.fr, Tel. +33-1-45 07 71, arrival Nov. 07, departure Nov. 17
* Andreas and Carmen Tegtmeier: 1 portable C8???, ATegtmeier@surfeu.de, arrival Nov. 07, departure ???
* Jens and Heiko Lüdemann: jens.luedemann@web.de,hluedema@t-online.de , arrival Nov. 09, departure ???

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South Africa

Symbol	Location	Telescope	Camera	Contacts and/or observers
Sp	Springbok	* M12 (30-cm) portable in principle, but not easily	???	Christo de Witt cdewit@lantic.net Tel. +27-(0)82-574 72 24
Ce	Cederberg	* 40-cm Newtonian, fixed * 30-cm and 35-cm Dobsobian, no drive * One or two C8 (20-cm) portable * M12 (30-cm), Alt-Az, portable	???	Dany Duprez Cliff Turk cliffturk@yebo.co.za Tel. +27-(0)21- 531 52 50 Peter Schonau
Cp	Cape Town University	* C14 (35-cm), portable, must be refurbished	???	Cliff Turk, Brian Warner
Cp	Cape Town	* One C8 (20-cm), portable * one M8 (20-cm), portable	???	Cliff Turk Tony Jones
SAAO	South African Astronomical Observatory	* 1-m	V Photometer	Ian Glass isg@saao.ac.za SAAO webpage
SAAO	South African Astronomical Observatory	* 1.4-m IRSF	IR camera	Tetsuya Nagata nagata@z.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp
(PA)	(Prince Albert)	(* M10, 25-cm, portable?) (* M16, 40-cm, fixed?)	???	(Albert Jansen) (agjansen@cybertrade.co.za) (Tel. +27(0)23-5411 871) Karoo Astronomy webpage
(Bo)	(Boyden Observatory)	(1.5-m)	(???)	Pieter Meintjies MeintjPJ@sci.uovs.ac.za Tel. +27- (0)51- 401 29 91 Gerrit Penning gpenning@webmail.co.za Boyden Observatory webpage
(Jo)	(Johannesburg)	(???)	(???)	(???)

Personnel and available cameras:
* Wolfgang Beisker: 3 IOC cameras + probably 2 arrays ICX098 B inserted in Toucan webcams, beisker@gsf.de, Tel. +49-89-31 87 28 42, arrival Nov. 06, departure Nov. 20
* François Colas: 1 Audine (video mode) + 1 Watec camera used with a dichroic + probably another Audine (video mode), francois.colas@imcce.fr, Tel. +33-1-40 51 22 66, arrival Nov. 07, departure Dec. 2
* Ian Glass: visible photometer, isg@saao.ac.za
* Tetsuya Nagata: IR camera, nagata@z.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp
* Thomas Widemann: 1 IOC, thomas.widemann@obspm.fr, Tel. +33-1-45 07 74 09, arrival Nov. 07, departure Nov. 17

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La Réunion

Symbol	Location	Telescope	Camera	Contacts and/or observers
Re	La Réunion	* C14 (35-cm) fixed * M12 (30-cm) portable? * Two C11 GPS (27.5-cm) portable * C8 (20-cm) portable from E. Frappa * Two C8 (20-cm) portable from Les Makes	???	Jean Lecacheux jlx@meteores.net Eric Frappa frappa@sideral.com André Peyrot, Gérard Hesler, Thierry Payet, ... Observatoire Les Makes obs.astronomique@wanadoo.fr Les Makes webpage

Personnel and available cameras:
* Eric Frappa: frappa@sideral.com, arrival Nov. 08, departure Nov. 17
* Jean Lecacheux: two channels red and blue with dichroic, red channel (> 650 nm): intensified analogic camera + digital camescope, blue channel (< 650 nm): CCD Watec + digital camescope. jlx@meteores.net, arrival Nov. 08, departure Nov. 17
* Les Makes: four Audine cameras (three in image by image mode + connection ethernaude, one in drift scan mode), obs.astronomique@wanadoo.fr

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Titan & TYC 1343-1865-1 (second occultation):

Spain

Symbol	Location	Telescope	Camera	Contacts and/or observers
IAA	Instituto Astronómico de Andalucia	* 1.5-m * 0.9-m	Imaging CCD and IR Denis camera	Jose Luis Ortiz ortiz@iaa.es IAA webpage Sylvain Pau sylvain.pau@obspm.fr
IAC	Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias	* 1.5-m * 0.82-m (Teide)	IR camera & imaging CCD	Mark Kidger mrk@ll.iac.es IAC/Teide webpage
Roque de los Muchachos	Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes	* 4.2- m	CCD Ultracam, 3 filters	Vik Dhillon ??? Tom Marsh ???

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