Hi Thomas thanks for that.....perhaps you could alert those contacts in the Liverpool area. The weather doesn't look too favourable , but , its always worth being prepared , just in case. It would be great to add a transit image to my ISS collection :o) Best wishes, John. http://www.satcom.freeserve.co.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Fly" <thomasfly@j2ee-consultants.com> To: "SeeSat-L" <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 5:45 PM Subject: Re: ISS Lunar transit alert > John Locker wrote: > > > Not sure if anyone is near to me here on the Wirral UK, but CalSKY.com now confirms that I will be almost on the centre line of an > ISS lunar transit tomorrow evening. > > I have several subscribers that should be along that transit path in England (and Ireland), including a few in the Liverpool area- > whether or not they're also SeeSat-L subscribers, I don't know. > > I also have a lunar transit (sunlit & nighttime :-) predicted for that same orbit, 11 minutes earlier in South Carolina. If the > current atmospheric muck clears in time, it'll be the first transit I've seen since the nearly "accidental" one I observed in > October 2001. > > As I recently discovered, by putting in the latitude & longitude of a point along the predicted transit path, it's easy to get > CalSKY to generate a graphic of what the transit should look like- see > http://iss-transit.sourceforge.net/TransitPathWidth.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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