Re: Geosat Flare Calculator: Part 2!

From: Jeff Umbarger (jumbarger2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Oct 08 2007 - 04:36:52 EDT

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    Hey Gordon,
         Unfortunately not. I will be recalculating a new
    set of tables for the next geosat season next
    February. However, you will be in the "Catbird Seat"
    next season as it gets better for you as the days
    progress, especially in early April.
    
         Regards,
              Jeff
    
    
    --- Gordon Prichard <gprichard@vtown.com.au> wrote:
    
    > Hello Jeff,
    >     Will this spreadsheet be usable in the next
    > flaring season?
    >        Gordon
    >        Newcastle, Australia
    > 
    > ----- Original Message ----- 
    > From: "Jeff Umbarger" <jumbarger2000@yahoo.com>
    > To: <seesat-l@satobs.org>
    > Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 1:25 PM
    > Subject: Geosat Flare Calculator: Part 2!
    > 
    > 
    > > Hey All,
    > >      With help, as usual, from Kevin Fetter, I've
    > > posted an Excel spreadsheet at:
    > >
    > http://www.kfetter.com/jeff/2007FallGeosatFlare.xls
    > > (You might get a message saying "Enter Network
    > > Password", just click on the "Cancel" button and
    > the
    > > page should appear.) The spreadsheet takes an
    > > observers exact latitude and longitude and GMT
    > Offset
    > > and calculates where and when to look in the next
    > few
    > > days to see maximum geostationary satellite
    > (geosat)
    > > flaring. If you do not have Microsoft Excel to run
    > > this spreadsheet, send me an email with you exact
    > > latitude, longitude, and current GMT Offset and I
    > > will, time permitting, send you a table of dates,
    > > times, and locations.
    > >      To use this table enter your longitude
    > (negative
    > > for West, positive for East), latitude (positive
    > for
    > > North, negative for South - although geosat
    > flaring
    > > has pretty much ended for Southern Hemisphere
    > > observers), and you current GMT Offset. The
    > acronym PD
    > > means "Purple Dot" and it is where you look in the
    > > sky. PDRT means Purple Dot Rise Time (on your
    > eastern
    > > horizon), PD RA means PD Right Ascension, PD Dec.
    > > means PD Declination, and PDST means PD Set Time
    > (on
    > > your western horizon). With the exception of last
    > date
    > > - Oct 15 (and maybe Oct 14), if you see the term
    > > "#NUM!" in both of the "Eclipse" columns, then
    > this
    > > means that the PD stays eclipsed all night and
    > there
    > > be no flaring geosats at the PD. On the last date,
    > Oct
    > > 15 (and maybe Oct 14) the term "#NUM" means that
    > the
    > > PD is visible *all* night - which is a great
    > > situation. Please see email
    > > http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Sep-2007/0240.html
    > for
    > > more information. Please let me know if you have
    > any
    > > questions.
    > >
    > >      Regards,
    > >           Jeff Umbarger
    > >           Plano, TX, USA
    > >           jumbarger2000@yahoo.com
    > >
    > >
    >
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