Last September and October Rainer Kresken posted a table of optimum dates around the autumnal equinox for observing flaring geosats: http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Oct-1999/0001.html I received an inquiry, and as I didn't remember seeing a similar table for the current season, I've guessed at making one. I tried to "invert" Rainer's table for last October and November. So this is just a guess, but I hope it's kind of in the ballpark. It seems that it's just about the right time for 30 degrees north latitude. Obviously since my table is a guess, corrections are solicited! latitude optimum date +80 27/Feb +60 01/Mar +40 06/Mar +20 13/Mar 0 20/Mar (vernal equinox) -20 28/Mar -40 03/Apr -60 08/Apr -80 11/Apr Jason Hatton has collected reports of observations of this type from the last "flaring geosat" season on this page: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/1668/geo.htm Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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