It appears the optimum point for this will be the Southern Wairarapa in the vicinity of Lake Wairarapa (further north e.g. Masterton there will be no observation at all of the ISS possible!) for the ISS lunar transit, and Nelson for the ISS transit of Mars. I have done my best to alert appropriate people but suggest that you may wish to advise any contacts you have in Nelson, NZ as well as those previously mentioned in the Wairarapa and Wellington - those in the Wairarapa may need to travel towards the south coast. Although for my location and Wellington it won't be a transit I am looking forward to seeing all three in close proximity if the weather permits- prospects are mixed at this stage with cloud possible. Nelson probably has the best chance as long as the wind is southerly! Robert Holdsworth Wainuiomata New Zealand 41.2610°S, 174.9470°E ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Holdsworth" <robbonz1@xtra.co.nz> To: "Seesat Explosive Address" <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 11:02 PM Subject: Re: ISS/lunar/Mars transit > Thanks for those who sent emails to the list and to me personally commenting > on this topic. > > Firstly I have been corrected that I should refer to an occultation rather > than a transit in reference to the Moon and Mars. However in any event > apparently the separation between these will be around 2 degrees as seen > from my location- this was not clear from the sky chart in the ISS > predictions on Heavens Above, but is evident from the general whole sky > chart. > > Also allowing for drag it may be a "near miss" at my location. I will be > checking closer to the time for any suitable locations where transit of Mars > or the moon will in fact occur.. Even allowing for correction of > inaccuracies the observation of all three in close proximity will be > interesting even if there is no transit (and perhaps has additional > significance in view of the closeness of Mars to Earth at the time.) As a > matter of interest civil twilight commences at the time of the pass. > > Robert. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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