Information on Service 'VOccDB datalink service'

The VOccDB database provides prediction and parameters of stellar occultations by the main planetary satellites. Observations of a stellar occultations help to better determine the size and the shape of the occulting body, as well as its astrometric position at the milli-arcsecond level precision. Only the main moons of giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are considered in the event prediction database. Predictions are provided over period 2023-2032, up to visual magnitude 12 for the biggest satellites, and magnitude 14 for other satellites. For each stellar occultation event prediction, the database provides circumstances and observational data, date and timing of the occultation, star position and magnitude, excepted duration, etc.

For a list of all services and tables belonging to this service's resource, see Information on resource 'Predictions of stellar occultations by the main planetary satellites'

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Input Fields

The following fields are available to provide input to the service (with some renderers, some of these fields may be unavailable):

NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
ID Id The publisher DID of the dataset of interest N/A meta.id;meta.main
maxrec Match limit Maximum number of records returned. Pass 0 to retrieve service parameters. N/A N/A
responseformat Output Format File format requested for output. N/A meta.code.mime
verb Verbosity Exhaustiveness of column selection. VERB=1 only returns the most important columns, VERB=2 selects the columns deemed useful to the average user, VERB=3 returns a table with all available columns. N/A N/A

VOResource XML (that's something exclusively for VO nerds)