Re: consecutive sunlit ISS lunar transits in England Thursday

From: Thomas Fly (thomasfly@j2ee-consultants.com)
Date: Thu Dec 04 2003 - 10:28:18 EST

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    Denis wrote:
    
    > I put your crossover location in my program and came up with the
    > following time, distance from center of moon and range...
    
       Date  Time       RA           Dec         EL AZ  Dist(Min) Range(Km)
       04/12 16:03:20   01h 44m 28s  07d 42m 09s 15 098  5.6m     1124
       04/12 17:37:59   01h 47m 00s  08d 02m 13s 28 118  3.7m      735
    
    The location probably wasn't exactly right, since Microsoft S&T is limited in
    its resolution outside of the U.S. & Canada.
    
    The TLE I used was from:
    http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/JavaSSOP/orbit/ISS/SVPOST.html
    
    1 25544U 98067A   03338.33425327  .00014961  00000-0  18257-3 0  9038
    2 25544  51.6276 241.8062 0006209 207.5767 152.5062 15.65278990  7609
    
    I used an elevation of 50 ft.
    
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