In a message dated Tue, 16 Apr 2002 8:38:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Art Glick <omb00900@mail.wvnet.edu> writes: >I'd like to tell me friends and neighbors to take a look, but now I'm not >sure when to tell them to look. Our own location (in decimal) is 38.067 >North, 80.434 West, and I'll bet that some of you all could tell me where >and when to look with even more accuracy that H-A and Skywatch combined! > >In particular, I'd be very interested in knowing what some of you would >expect to see in terms of the amount of separation between the two objects. This will be a great pass for the NE USA (20:45 EDT (UTC - 4 hrs), 17 April). At your location the pass will be NW to SE and pass directly overhead. Look for the 2 at 20:46:00 EDT (00:46:00 UTC)to be rising a few degrees right of alpha Perseus. At 20:47:30 EDT (00:47:30) it should be directly overhead. Do not worry about being too precise with the time or location in the sky. You should have 2 objects about as bright as Jupiter passing over you. The precise seperation is difficult to predict. On past missions I've seen the seperation as little as 2-3 seconds and as much as 30 seconds (1 sec is *roughly* 1 deg of arc) - Atlantis will be in the lead. For the Baltimore-Washington Area the pair will pass R->L under the Moon at 20:47:00 EDT (00:47:00 UTC) and just past alpha Canis Minor (Procyon)at 20:47:50 EDT (00:47:50 UTC). Cheers, Don Gardner 39.1799 N, 76.8406 W, 100m ASL http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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