Yes, I was also surprised to get a prediction for So Cal tonight at 18:06 local, 21 deg high. Did not see it. 33.729 long -117.822 altitude ~ 34 m. You may also want to relax your highest-pass criterion: if you are normally set to reject passes below 15 deg try 10 deg for this potentially bright object. Mark --- ecannon@mail.utexas.edu wrote: > I was surprised to get an evening twilight > prediction for STS-107 > this evening, low in the north just after 6:30 p.m. > local. (I did > not see it this time.) Its mean motion is about > 15.99, so unless > it maneuvers, similar passes will occur each evening > twilight. > Our predictions get pretty good for this weekend -- > again barring > a maneuver. So, north Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, > Louisiana, etc., > might want to loosen your evening twilight parameter > in your > prediction program(s). NASA does not (yet) show any > evening > predictions for Austin. I haven't checked > Heavens-Above.com yet. > [Ed's passes deleted] ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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