Here's another attempt of mine to predict flares from the aft skirt of the Hubble Space Telescope according to the planned pointing information from the HST timeline. Observers along the U.S. Gulf coast might see a flare on 8-AUG-05 while the HST is pointing to Tau Ceti. But at the time of the flare the HST will be quite close to the horizon. Times are in UTC. 9:08:45 30.295 -88.948 (Elevation 6.5°) 9:09:00 30.335 -85.567 (Elevation 9.7°) 9:09:15 30.334 -82.928 (Elevation 11.8°) 9:09:30 30.307 -80.657 (Elevation 14.2°) On 10-AUG-05 at 5:55:50 UTC a flare might be visible from Lanzarote, Canary Islands, while the HST is pointing at Uranus. (You could try looking from the other islands of the archipelago as well in the seconds before that but they are probably too far south of the central line to show a flare.) Gerhard HOLTKAMP Darmstadt, Germany
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