I haven't corrected this for atmospheric distortion (I bow in awe to that!) these are my *estimates* for viewing from Maui: Az: 251.2 Elevation: 7.8 RA: 46.3 Dec: 20.7 These could be off, of course, because I'm really basing the interception position on how nice it looks for debris from the interceptor falling into the NOTAM. Geoff -----Original Message----- From: John A. Dormer 2 [mailto:jad@texas.net] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 7:18 PM To: forden@mit.edu Cc: seesat-l@satobs.org Subject: Re: USA 193 NOTAM released? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Geoffrey E. Forden wrote: | Unfortunately, it will be daylight and they will be looking into the sun, | but perhaps there will be some fireballs?) An acquaintance who grew up on the Kwajelein Atol test range told me that anti-missile tests he saw from the area in the late 1960s had clearly-visible impacts or explosions from a few hundred nautical miles, even in daylight. He had some help looking in just the right place in the sky, though. Although I have the orbital plane surveillance tool almost done, it doesn't have the capacity to point to an arbitrary fixed azimuth just yet. I probably won't have time to add that before the attempt to shoot down USA 193 happens. This would allow a telescope to point to a place in space along the orbital plane which won't necessarily coincide with the highest elevation the vehicle will appear to an observer. Honestly, I'm just to the point of adding RA/Dec conversion as well as atmospheric correction. John -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHuiAjThFRLa48rEYRAusdAJ9PQAnmovS3dJLV7GJlCCdD87r6aACeMlAL yF50oSc+eNaZZVb8YuPtNyk= =8f7H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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