Hey All, With help, as usual, from Kevin Fetter, I've posted an Excel spreadsheet at: http://www.kfetter.com/jeff/2007FallGeosatFlare.xls (You might get a message saying "Enter Network Password", just click on the "Cancel" button and the page should appear.) The spreadsheet takes an observers exact latitude and longitude and GMT Offset and calculates where and when to look in the next few days to see maximum geostationary satellite (geosat) flaring. If you do not have Microsoft Excel to run this spreadsheet, send me an email with you exact latitude, longitude, and current GMT Offset and I will, time permitting, send you a table of dates, times, and locations. To use this table enter your longitude (negative for West, positive for East), latitude (positive for North, negative for South - although geosat flaring has pretty much ended for Southern Hemisphere observers), and you current GMT Offset. The acronym PD means "Purple Dot" and it is where you look in the sky. PDRT means Purple Dot Rise Time (on your eastern horizon), PD RA means PD Right Ascension, PD Dec. means PD Declination, and PDST means PD Set Time (on your western horizon). With the exception of last date - Oct 15 (and maybe Oct 14), if you see the term "#NUM!" in both of the "Eclipse" columns, then this means that the PD stays eclipsed all night and there be no flaring geosats at the PD. On the last date, Oct 15 (and maybe Oct 14) the term "#NUM" means that the PD is visible *all* night - which is a great situation. Please see email http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Sep-2007/0240.html for more information. Please let me know if you have any questions. Regards, Jeff Umbarger Plano, TX, USA jumbarger2000@yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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