>Does anyone know of a website that describes how a person >can determine whether a geosynchronous satellite (or any >of the slow moving satellites that have been discussed >recently) can be see from a particular place on the earth? >Observing tips would also be very welcome. :~) Check out these two websites for a lot of good information: VSOHP page about geosats: http://www.satobs.org/geosats.html Jason Hatton's page (new URL): http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/hattonjasonp/hasohp//GEO.HTML Jason's site also has a lot about objects in highly eccentric orbits. Tip Number One is that they are best/easiest observed with a telescope (required for operational geosats almost always) or mounted binoculars. However, brightly flashing geosynchs can be observed with handheld binoculars, but so far only a very few of them have predictable flash episodes. So you have just to look where they are for more than the length of a known flash period and see if you see a flash. (It does take a bit of patience, but you can admire the stars while you wait for a flash.) The more observations that are done, the more the chances of the flash episodes being predictable. Operational "laring geosats" or geosynchs can be observed with binoculars -- and a few even without magnification -- during the "flaring geosynch seasons", which are near the equinoxes. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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