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We present lunar occultation observations obtained in August 2006 with therecently demonstrated burst mode of the ISAAC instrument at the ESO VLT. Theresults presented here follow the previously reported observations carried outin March 2006 on a similar but unrelated set of sources.  Interstellar extinction in the inner regions of the galactic bulge amounts totens of magnitudes at visual wavelengths. As a consequence, the majority ofsources in that area are poorly studied and large numbers of potentiallyinteresting sources such as late-type giants with circumstellar shells, stellarmasers, infrared stars, remain excluded from the typical investigations whichare carried out in less problematic regions. Also undetected are a largenumbers of binaries. By observing LO events in this region, we gain the meansto investigate at least a selected number of sources with an unprecedentedcombination of sensitivity and angular resolution. The LO technique permits toachieve mas resolution with a sensitivity of K~12mag at a very large telescope.We have used the opportunity of a favorable passage of the Moon over a crowdedregion in the general direction of the Galactic Center to observe 78 LO eventsof heavily reddened stellar sources. We have detected six new binary and onetriple star, with typical projected separation of ~0.01". We have also detectedthe compact circumstellar emission around one maser and one central star of aplanetary nebula. Additionally we have measured the diameter and/orcircumstellar shell of two carbon stars and other IR sources. In agreement withour previous result, we conclude that lunar occultations in fast read-out modeon a detector subwindow at an 8m-class telescope can achieve an angularresolution close to 0.001" with a sensitivity K~12mag.

Milliarcsecond angular resolution of reddened stellar sources in the vicinity of the Galactic Center. II. Additional observations