Thank you Marco for the info. However, I see a launch time of 23:52:11 on Spaceflightnow, therefore I would expect a passage over Europe about 20 minutes later. What do you think? best regards ======================================== Message du : 05/06/2013 11:35 De : "Marco Langbroek " <marco.langbroek@online.nl> A : "satelliet lijst (SeeSat)" <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Copie à : pierre-neirinck@wanadoo.fr Sujet : Visible ATV-4 passes over Europe tonight Hi all, If all goes well, the European space cargo ship ATV-4 "Albert Einstein" will be launched from Kourou at 21:52 UT tonight. The ATV will make visible passes over Europe later that night. At about 23:45-23:50 UT (01:47 CEST) it will make a pass straight over the UK, Netherlands and Germany. An orbit later, around 01:20 UT (03:20 CEST), it will make a second pass (in twilight), over the southern UK, France and Southern Germany. ESA has kindly made projected TLE's available here: http://blogs.esa.int/atv/2013/06/02/finding-atv-in-the-sky/ The relevant TLE for tonight is: ATV-4 1 00000U 13156A 13156.95908050 .00000000 00000-0 11891-3 0 0008 2 00000 051.6512 167.2588 0016658 269.7524 354.7951 16.02929810 00002 A live ground track applet is available here: http://blogs.esa.int/atv/2013/06/05/atv-4-follow-the-ground-track/ There will be more visible passes later this week, and in the night of June 14/15 it will be possible to see the ATV and ISS chasing each other close together in the sky, in the hours before docking on the 15th. - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. e-mail: sattrackcam@langbroek.org Cospar 4353 (Leiden): 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL Cospar 4354 (De Wilck): 52.11685 N, 4.56016 E (WGS84), -2 m ASL Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com Twitter: @Marco_Langbroek ----- _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20130605/c7862841/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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