At 10:21 AM 24/11/2011, ronlee@pcisys.net wrote: >Has this been analyzed for visibility? > >Burn visibility? > >Ron Lee > >___________________________________ Ron, and others, At the start of JPL Horizons ephemeris the spacecraft is at roughly 58 degrees elevation from the coast of western australia, 23 degrees from Adelaide, and 11 degrees from Canberra. So I imagine that observers in Perth WA will seem some of the last of the solar orbit inject and the centaur fuel dump.Local time in WA will be just before midnight. I just caught the last fading bits of the Cassini's centaur fuel dump back in 1997? because of a phone alert from a member of the public so this time i want to see the start if possible. A former president of our local Astro. Soc was doing a viewing night at a kindergarten and saw the artificial short-lived comet as she describede it. tony Beresford _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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