RE: sats lunar transit

Ron Lee (ronlee@pcisys.net)
Tue, 02 Feb 1999 19:26:06 -0700

At 04:27 PM 2/2/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi Jean,
>
>> Here in Western Europe there is a sudden and considerable
>> interest in observing lunar transit (or of all other objects)
>> by visual satellites.  Please write another soft. It would
>> satisfy many people.
>
>The SkyMap program will already do lunar transit predictions (as well as
>solar transits).  

To confirm this, my first and only transit was made because I noticed
that a recently launched object was passing over the moon. Zoom in and
yes indeed it was.  It was a telescopic obs.

That was a fluke. There is a transit option that is designed to find
transits.

Ron Lee