Rob Wrote Kevin Fetter has long asked for this feature in my EARTH program, but other projects have unfortunately occupied my free time over much of the last year. The aforementioned EARTH program ~does~ generate exactly the kind of file you want (time, latitude, longitude) for a satellite's transit centerline track, but for *solar* transits rather than lunar ones. If there is still interest out there (a show of hands?) I'll bite the bullet and code it in. Heck I even used rob EARTH program to try and find out where I could go to see an iridium flare on the moon. So I used the rob program, with data from stk, and got a hit. It took some work, but I knew my wacky idea sort of works:) Here's my wacky logic, get ready to laugh:) I use EARTH to get the path where a certain iridium satellite is flaring. I use stk to see where that certain iridium will transit the moon's centre. I plot the data from earth and stk programs on a map found in the guide astronomy program. I then look at the path's and see when the time of a iridium flare is close to the time that satellite go across the moon. Since the flare path is where the flare is brightest, and the line from stk where the satellite will go across the centre of the moon, then if the two lines cross somewhere on earth, and the time they cross is close to each other, then you should be able to watch a flaring iridium sat go across the moon around that area. So I did a test, after I little work, I ran skymap, and what do you know, it show's a flaring iridium going across the moon. It was for an event in the future so the error's add up , but still it seems to work:) Now if rob could write a program to find where to go to see a iridium flare on the moon, when he has the time. Kevin _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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