> Let's say you've set up a custom H-A page for your location and are > online to > check to see if there are any "monster" flares scheduled. First, as > you > might normally do, click on the H-A selection for "Iridium Flares - > for the > next 7 days." Assuming one or more flares stand out, copy down the > best > flare's date and time, elevation and azimuth (or just clone your > browser). What do you mean by "clone"? Cloning, to an avid computer user as myself, means to slightly modify a piece of software to fit your own purposes (and that is obviously illegal with browsers). Perhaps you mean "copy" or "print" the screen? When I see an Iridium flare predicted, for say, 47 degrees azimuth, and 27 degrees altitude, I recall at my observing site (my backyard) where the sun rises (east, or 90 degrees) and sets (west, or 270 degrees). Thus, I can quickly locate north (0 degrees) and south (180 degrees) as well. 47 degrees is only 2 degrees from 45, which would be roughly north-east (for me, just looking in the right quadrant of the sky is adequete). I then look 30% (27/90) above the horizon at that point, at the predicted time, and see (usually) the flaring satellite. Sounds mathematically complicated, but after you do it a couple of times, it'll be like instinct to you. ---------------------------- Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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