Pluto occultation

2022-03-27

A stellar occultation by Pluto will occur on June 1, 2022, and will be observable from the South East Pacific at 16:16:30 UT. The map on the right contains information about the path of the shadow of Pluto over Earth's surface. Observations of this stellar occultation can help researchers to study the atmosphere of Pluto and its seasonal variation from comparison with data obtained by the NASA New Horizons spacecraft and previous occultations. In particular, observations obtained close to the center of the shadow, and requiring well located portable telescopes, will be very valuable to investigate the deeper layers of Pluto's atmosphere.

Important links

• Details of the event are available from the Lucky Star collaboration: https://lesia.obspm.fr/lucky-star/occ.php?p=105008.

• Astronomical campaign to observe this occultation. Data provided by Dr. Leslie Young (Southwest Research Institute): https://tinyurl.com/Pluto2022-06-01.