Mike searched for at least an hour the other evening in order to recover 90019, and quite a few minutes the next evening to pin it down a lot better. FWIW, here's a position I got a few hours ago: UTC 2004-08-19 02:05:21.5 RA 19:37.475 Dec -5.38 (2000) I was at the Ney Museum site: 30.307N, 97.727W, 150m. How are people planning on tracking if/when the supply of official elements is cut down, if not off? I was thinking that maybe I could get predictions for and watch a well-known small section of sky (e.g., currently, Altair and Tarazed in Aquila, or Delphinus, or Lyra, or the middle of Cygnus, etc.) for whatever goes through it in an evening. That way I could perhaps get some possibly useful positional measurements. I'm afraid that this type of observing will not be much fun -- very discouraging, if the fun is taken out of it. Will a large increase in the need for positional measurements put an end to PPAS observing? I don't think I could combine the two much at all. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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