In a message dated 03/09/2000 11:01:34 AM EST, molczan@home.com writes: > I am sympathetic to that problem, and what you propose is quite feasible, but > I > hope you don't have too many airplanes to contend with, since I know of no > practical/convenient way to predict their passages. You haven't lived until you're tracking a satellite in your 10x50s and a bat flying towards you enters your FOV. One last note on HST visibility - I've had accasions where the HST was not visible (dimmer than +6.0) and other passes that were briefly -2 mag (at least). The range of the HST is always about the same: ~1000 miles or 1600 km. The orientaion rather than the range seems to affect its brightness more. Don Gardner 39.1796 N, 76.8419 W, 34m ASL Homepage: http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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