Re: ISS Lunar transit alert

From: John Locker (john@satcom.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Sat Jun 07 2003 - 12:07:27 EDT

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    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
    
    
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