Hi All, Jason Hatton and others have reminded me that Superbird A has returned to European skies. For you night owls, my program is predicting that the flash window is from ~2:45 to 3:15 UT for 8 Feb 2000. For Europe, the flashes are first seen in southern Portugal and work their way to the northeast. Here are my best guesses at the times of the center of the flash window for a few representative locations: 2:47 S. Portugal 2:49 Central Spain 2:52 S. France 2:54 London, Paris, Montecarlo 2:55 E. France, Switzerland, Italy 2:56 Edinburgh, Belgium, western Germany, Venice 2:57 Eastern Germany, Austria 2:58 Vienna 2:59 Denmark 3:00 S. Norway, S. Sweden 3:03 Central Norway/Sweden Russia, eastern Europe and northern Africa are also favorably placed. Flash location appears to be about 7 degrees to the left of beta-Librae. As usual, these times may be off by 10 minutes or so, depending on how much the spin axis has diverged from my model in the last 4 months. As soon as someone posts a time for the peak of the flashes from their location, I can update the model to restore 1-minute accuracy on future predictions. Good luck! Rob ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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