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From: Astronomy Ireland <ai_at_iol.ie>
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 23:38:12 -0400

I've been predicting and issue press notices about whent to see Mir since
1988.
I used to participate in the British Astronomical Association's
artificial satellite observing section and contributed some useful
sightings back in late 70s.

Hoping to videotape the coming Mir-Shuttle link up using a normal
camcorder just sitting on a tripod. It seems to be able to reach mag 5
with its 8x zoom lens so mag -2 Shuttle and Mir should be easy.
Will offer recording to TV station.

I may piggyback on Celestron 8 telescope but I believe best solution is to
tilt polar axis to pole of Mir's orbit (isn't this how Baker-Nunn tracking
cameras used work i.e. tracking is mostly done in RA with this setup) and
I haven't got formula for calculation where that is (ra/dec) given two
line element set, lat/longitude, date/time.

Formula must exist. Anyone got it?

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David Moore BSc FRAS, Editor of "Astronomy & Space" magazine.
(ai_at_iol.ie) Chairman, Astronomy Ireland, P.O.Box 2888, Dublin 1.
Tel: +353-1-459 8883. Fax: +353-1-459 9933.
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