Please note: > that night alone it passes through five constellations, > beginning in Sagitta and ending up in Hercules. 1) For Europeans it will start its evening path on Saturday in Delphinus or Aquila (~19h UT), move to Sagitta at 20h UT, Vulpecula at 22h UT and enter Lyra at about 01h UT. > It is expected to become as bright as 9th magnitude 2) It won't be as bright as 9.0m - perhaps rather 9.5. Yet it is rotating with 20hrs period (slooooow tumbler :-))) and 1.1 mag amplitude. Peak is expected at 20h UT on Aug. 17th (good for Central Europe) and then probably at 6h UT on Aug. 18 (good for US). At 01h UT brightness will probably be 0.5 mag less than predicted. > It will be moving at up to 8 arcminutes per minute of time! 3) True, but for 08h UT and for western hemisphere observers. Angular motion will be growing quickly as it approaches Earth: 2 arc min per minute at 19h UT, 3'/min at 22:30 UT, 4'/min at 00:30 UT, 5'/min at 02h UT and so on. Best regards from Europe, Denis ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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