We've done our figures on the back on a paper plate (yes really) - we believe that it will become illuminated no later than 3:22UT at which point it will be 14,500km away. We are hoping for a glint of the booster or (like Cassini) the seeing fuel dumping. Only one problem - we are in complete overcast at the moment (the radio telescopes are fine, but our eyes aren't) Paul S. On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:49 AM, manmeet virdi <manmeetvirdi@hotmail.com>wrote: > > Paul, > Canberra right now is in shadow area and I think in 1 hours time MSL will > be in transit orbit to Mars, so will it be possible > to look at spacecraft though naked eye during wee hours, I doubt ? > I have no idea about it, but if possible then Iam very much interested to > know the visiblity condition over here at Gurgaon, > 28.4886°N, 77.0826°E + 5:30 UTC. > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20111126/199a65ef/attachment.html > _______________________________________________ > 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/20111127/bed09e0b/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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