If you still believe in fairy tales let's just pretend Atlantis actually gets launched on Saturday, 9-SEP-06, 15:14:56 UTC. Then this would be the line across Europe where a solar transit of the Shuttle and the ET might be visible. (Times in UT, followed by longitude and latitude). SEP 9 15:34:10 -7.434° 52.998° SEP 9 15:34:15 -6.843° 52.954° SEP 9 15:34:20 -6.253° 52.908° SEP 9 15:34:25 -5.663° 52.859° SEP 9 15:34:30 -5.074° 52.807° SEP 9 15:34:35 -4.485° 52.752° SEP 9 15:34:40 -3.896° 52.695° SEP 9 15:34:45 -3.308° 52.635° SEP 9 15:34:50 -2.721° 52.572° SEP 9 15:34:55 -2.134° 52.507° SEP 9 15:35:00 -1.547° 52.439° SEP 9 15:35:05 -0.962° 52.368° SEP 9 15:35:10 -0.376° 52.294° SEP 9 15:35:15 0.208° 52.218° SEP 9 15:35:20 0.792° 52.139° SEP 9 15:35:25 1.376° 52.058° SEP 9 15:35:30 1.958° 51.974° SEP 9 15:35:35 2.540° 51.887° SEP 9 15:35:40 3.122° 51.798° SEP 9 15:35:45 3.703° 51.706° SEP 9 15:35:50 4.283° 51.611° SEP 9 15:35:55 4.863° 51.514° SEP 9 15:36:00 5.443° 51.415° SEP 9 15:36:05 6.022° 51.313° SEP 9 15:36:10 6.600° 51.208° SEP 9 15:36:15 7.178° 51.101° SEP 9 15:36:20 7.756° 50.991° SEP 9 15:36:25 8.334° 50.879° SEP 9 15:36:30 8.911° 50.764° SEP 9 15:36:35 9.488° 50.647° SEP 9 15:36:40 10.066° 50.527° SEP 9 15:36:45 10.643° 50.405° SEP 9 15:36:50 11.221° 50.281° SEP 9 15:36:55 11.799° 50.154° SEP 9 15:37:00 12.378° 50.024° SEP 9 15:37:05 12.957° 49.892° SEP 9 15:37:10 13.537° 49.758° SEP 9 15:37:15 14.119° 49.621° SEP 9 15:37:20 14.701° 49.482° SEP 9 15:37:25 15.285° 49.340° SEP 9 15:37:30 15.871° 49.196° SEP 9 15:37:35 16.459° 49.049° SEP 9 15:37:40 17.050° 48.900° SEP 9 15:37:45 17.643° 48.748° SEP 9 15:37:50 18.238° 48.594° SEP 9 15:37:55 18.838° 48.437° SEP 9 15:38:00 19.442° 48.278° SEP 9 15:38:05 20.051° 48.116° SEP 9 15:38:10 20.665° 47.952° SEP 9 15:38:15 21.286° 47.785° SEP 9 15:38:20 21.914° 47.615° SEP 9 15:38:25 22.550° 47.442° SEP 9 15:38:30 23.196° 47.266° SEP 9 15:38:35 23.853° 47.088° SEP 9 15:38:40 24.522° 46.906° SEP 9 15:38:45 25.207° 46.721° SEP 9 15:38:50 25.908° 46.532° SEP 9 15:38:55 26.630° 46.339° SEP 9 15:39:00 27.377° 46.143° SEP 9 15:39:05 28.154° 45.941° SEP 9 15:39:10 28.967° 45.734° SEP 9 15:39:15 29.828° 45.521° SEP 9 15:39:20 30.749° 45.301° SEP 9 15:39:25 31.753° 45.070° SEP 9 15:39:30 32.876° 44.827° SEP 9 15:39:35 34.182° 44.564° SEP 9 15:39:40 35.728° 44.271° You would have to be within 2 or 3 km of this line in Western Europe or up to 6 or 8 km in Eastern Europe. Typically the transit will last about a second (depending on where you are) and will go from the lower left to the upper right of the sun's disk. Gerhard HOLTKAMP Darmstadt, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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