Superbird A for Monday, Sep

ROB MATSON (ROBERT.D.MATSON@cpmx.saic.com)
22 Sep 1997 15:39:43 -0800

Superbird watchers,

Here are the latest predictions for the primary flash window based on a curve
fit to observations by Mike McCants, Ed Cannon, Ron Lee, Jay Respler, Robert
Sheaffer and Jim Varney over the last three weeks:

All dates and times are UTC (early Tuesday morning, Sept. 23rd UT), though for
the US these will be locally Monday night:

3:14  West coast of Oregon and Washington; Vancouver, B.C.
3:15  Santa Rosa, CA; Mt. Shasta, CA; Cascade range of Oregon and Washington;
Tacoma and Seattle, WA
 3:16  Monterrey, Santa Cruz, Palo Alto, San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland and
Sacramento, CA; central Oregon; eastern-half of Washington.
3:17  Vandenberg AFB, Santa Maria, San Luis Obispo, Fresno, Yosemite National
Park and Lake Tahoe, CA; Carson City and Reno, NV; eastern Oregon;
Washington/Idaho border; Banff, Alberta.
3:18  Santa Barbara, Ventura, northern L.A. county, Mojave, Bishop, CA;
central Nevada; western Idaho including Boise; NW Montana (Kalispell); Calgary
and Edmonton.
3:19  San Diego, Orange and Riverside Counties; Palm Springs and Barstow, CA;
eastern Nevada; central Idaho; Butte, Helena and Great Falls, Montana;
Medicine Hat, Alberta.
3:20  El Centro and Needles, CA; Boulder City, AZ; Las Vegas, NV; Lake Mead;
western and northern Utah including Great Salt Lake, Ogden and Logan;
southeast Idaho (Pocatello, Idaho Falls); central Montana (Bozeman and Havre);
western Saskatchewan.
3:21  Western Arizona (Yuma); central Utah (Provo); northwest Wyoming (incl.
Yellowstone National Park); central to eastern Montana (Billings); central
Saskatchewan.
3:22  Phoenix, Flagstaff, Grand Canyon, Arizona; Lake Powell and eastern Utah;
central Wyoming; eastern Montana; Regina, Saskatchewan.
3:23  Nogales, Tucson, AZ; "Four Corners"; NW Colorado; eastern-half of
Wyoming (Casper, Devils Tower); NW North Dakota; SE Saskatchewan.
3:24 Western New Mexico; central Colorado (Leadville, Boulder, Ft. Collins);
[Colorado Springs and Denver about 30 seconds later]; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Rapid
City, South Dakota; central North Dakota; Brandon, Manitoba.
3:25  Albuquerque and Sante Fe, New Mexico; Pueblo and Sterling, CO; NW
Nebraska; Pierra, South Dakota; eastern half of North Dakota; Winnepeg,
Manitoba.
3:26  El Paso, TX; Alamagordo, Roswell and Tucumcari, Colorado/Kansas border;
central Nebraska; eastern half of South Dakota; Fargo, North Dakota; NW corner
of Minnesota.
3:27  Chihuahua, Mexico; Pecos and Amarillo, Texas; Oklahoma panhandle;
western Kansas; eastern half of Nebraska; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; SW to
northern Minnesota including International Falls.

(to be continued in next message)     --Rob