At 12:50 AM 3/03/05, you wrote: >On my question: > >> > We in Belgium and Netherlands like to try and observe Rosetta >> > during its fly-by. Therefore we need positions of this >> > spacecraft with respect to the starry sky and predicted for >> > our specific locations. Who knows how to obtain these? > >I got a very helpful reply from Ted Molczan and others: > >> Go to: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eph >> >I went to this URL and was able to calculate topocentric predictions. They >look great. >The only thing I missed was specification of stellar magnitude. In one or other if not both ESA pages it states that Rosetta will be magnitude 8-9 at a range of 10,000Km. Just use that rather than trying to do a standard magnitude Tony Beresford ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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