Census of Kuiper Comets : The Taiwan-America Occultation Survey


[Chinese version]

The Idea of TAOS


News and Announcement

A Binary System was Resolved in the Occultation by (87) Sylvia (18 December, 2006)
Three TAOS telescopes detected a predicted occultation by (286) Iclea (6 February, 2006)
TAOS detected a predicted occultation by (1723) Klemola while running in synchronous mode with two telescopes (5 June, 2004)
TAOS detected occultation by an asteroid (23 February, 2004)

The Project

The TAOS Collaboration
Academia Sinica, Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, The Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
National Central University, Institute of Astronomy
Yonsei University, South Korea
People
Image gallery
TAOS sites
TAOS Telescopes
Telescope Enclosures
Publications & Preprints
Internal documents (restricted)
Shutterless Zipper Mode (with animation)
TAOS Joint Seminars/Meetings (ASIAA & NCU)
TAOS-variable star workshop (25~27 Feb., 1999)

Hot Links

TAOS at National Central University, Institute of Astronomy
Kuiper Belt, University of Hawaii
List of Transneptunian Objects, Centaurs and Scattered-Disk Objects in IAU/MPC (Minor Planet Center)
Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment
Central Weather Bureau, Taiwan
The Kuiper Belt Electronic Newsletter
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