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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 May 2016
Lunar occultation observations at 2.2 microns of the inner dust shell of the carbon rich long period variable IRC + 10216 yield a clumpy structure with atleast four components. Comparison with concurrent and earlier speckle observations confirm the presence of these components and show that real spatial changes are taking place at the level of milli arcseconds on time scales of a few years in the inner dust shell of IRC + 10216.