I have done some analysis of Tomas' transit. I decided to use a TLE I just obtained from Ralph McConahy at rwmcconahy@earthlink.net . [Thanks Ralph and all the others that e-mailed me!] Having that I went to MapQuest at http://www.mapquest.com/maps/latlong.adp and entered the latitude and longitude of Stupava that I obtained elsewhere. That got me close. Then I changed the coords until I was centered on the middle of town. I input that into my TheSky software but the ISS missed the sun. To simplify matters I changed only the latitude and moved southward until I got a closest match to the sequence given at http://atm.zaciatok.sk/. I narrowed the search down to a possible location for what appears to me to be a two-for-one double transit (looks like Venus got nabbed too!). Unbelievable!! The location and time is 48d 15m 40s N, by 17d 1m 52s E. [Decimal values are 48.2611 N by 17.0311 E.] I used 445 meters altitude (obtained from H-A) and a time correction of GMT +2. I obtained the time correction someplace on the Internet. I may be wrong in that. The time that the ISS was transiting Venus was (as far as I can tell) close to 13h 09m 18s --local time--. The location that I used here is about 1 km south of the center of town of Stupava. I would appreciate it if others could verify the possibility of this information being close to the actual values. Tom Iowa USA + + + ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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