In a message dated 01/12/2000 9:33:15 AM EDT, whalan@pol.net writes: > have not been able to view Mir at predicted times. location southern > california 33.6245 -117.8514 > i am using bester.com predictions for los angeles about 40 miles > distance and german prediction using above coordinates. > > any suggestions? 1. See if Heavens Above has your particular town in its database. It has over 2 million locations. 2. You can get an accurate longitude and latitude at the US Census Tiger Mapping Service site: http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl Locate your observation site. Record the Lat+Long and enter it into the main page at Heavens Above. Bookmark the page you get after you enter your location and you won't need to do it again. An accurate location is necessary for Iridium Flare predictions. One more note: Last evening when Mir entered eclipse at 23:25:40 UTC, it appeared to turn dark red (like a lunar eclipse) for several seconds, then bright red (like Mars) for about 2 seconds before going completely dark. Cheers Don Gardner 39.1796 N, 76.8419 W, 34m ASL Homepage: http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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