Two first LED activations (outside Japan visibility) have been planned for the following days. According to the temporary schedule the first one will occur over US on Dec 12 at 06:14:30 UTC and it will last for 2 minutes. Some of the best locations to observe the flashing LEDs are: Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, New Jersey and Virginia. The second activation will occur over Europe on Dec 13 at 22:10:30 UTC and it will last for either 2 or 4 minutes. In case of 2 minute activation, some of the best locations for this pass are: UK, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and France (North). If the test will be extended to 4 minutes it should be visible also from: Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Slovenia and North of Italy. The LEDs can be observed from other locations as well: more details and maps can be obtained at the following page: http://www.satflare.com/track.php?q=fitsat Setting your coordinates, the program will display the expected LED magnitude at any desired date and time. In any cases, at least binoculars are required. (Both the schedule and the magnitudes might change as new data will be available). Other info available at the FitSat-1 home page: http://www.fit.ac.jp/~tanaka/fitsat.shtml Best regards, Simone _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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