I'm surprised that there would have been so large an error in the predicted fly-over time, in a prediction made only 4 days before. It appears to me (see below) that your watch was a bit off- or maybe you were just too blurry-eyed to read it right! Btw, why don't you just subscribe to: http://science.nasa.gov/RealTime/JPass/PassGenerator I hadn't noticed the maneuver that Kevin pointed out- however, it's for tomorrow. My WorldView program shows the following: 23:09:19 49.26 N, 70.40 E - beginning of the burn (UTC) 11:35 51.33 N, 83.44 E - becomes sunlit 13:14 51.79 N, 93.27 E - reaches the "top" of its orbit 16:34 49.95 N, 112.94 E - crosses the Earth's terminator 18:11 47.85 N, 121.61 E - end of burn I show the ISS becoming sunlit this morning at 5:51:36, and 232.88 miles above your backyard at 5:53:42 / 51.59 N, 3.12 W. Don't put your winter coat away in the attic just yet... I see you've got a near full-moon transit coming up for March 6, at 4:16:02. ;-) http://iss-transit.sourceforge.net/software.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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