Hi Tom, > The subject I discuss here is where to be to see a transit > of the moon by the International Space Station tonight. I > also explain how I made the determination. I ran transit predictions through SkyMap using the following elset: ISS 20.0 10.0 0.0 0.5 d 124 1 25544U 98067A 02107.58333333 -.00000508 00000-0 00000+0 0 3202 2 25544 51.6369 357.3923 0008316 345.8780 135.4011 15.57606929194578 Plugging in the coordinates of your four sites, they're all a bit west of the transit centerline, suggesting that either a different elset was used, or perhaps there is a systematic error in the lunar location. In any event, here are my corrections (assuming you keep the latitude unchanged): 41.1400N, 104.600W --> 41.140, 104.48 37.753 N, 99.350W --> 37.753, 99.22 34.746 N, 95.250W --> 34.746, 95.14 32.815 N, 92.856W --> 32.815, 92.73 While the errors only average about 0.12 degrees in longitude (about 6 1/2 miles), this is more than enough for the track to miss the moon. Cheers, Rob ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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