On 1/11/2014 9:00 AM, Kevin Fetter wrote: > Tommorow morinng, you will have a chance to see, them together in the sky at the same time. with the current TLEs i have at hand, i'm showing ISS passing about 0531 and Cygnus passing about 0535 but... > They plan to capture cygnus at 11:02 utc ( Jan 12 ) ...with this in mind and it being only 30 minutes later... > Not sure how close they will appear. if we see them, they will be very close... especially since they move to a close station keeping and hold there for a bit before they latch on... i don't recall how long they generally hold that station keeping or how many of those they have but i suspect when they cross over here, they will already be in position for the grapple and so may be too close to separate visually unless we can get some steady glass on them as they pass... > I most likely will be clouded out. we may very well be clouded out, too... right now we're getting a lot of high winds and still some heavy rains at times... hopefully it will be cleared out in the next 15-16 hours... > So check your pass info, and enjoy the show. we're going to try... just also hoping that it isn't so danged cold ;) -- NOTE: No off-list assistance is given without prior approval. Please keep mailing list traffic on the list unless private contact is specifically requested and granted. _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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