With the new launch attempt set for 16:03:09 UTC, 7-SEP-06 the position of the central line where a solar transit of Atlantis and the ET should be visible has shifted south a little. I now come up with the following prediction for Europe (times in UTC and then longitude and latitude): SEP 7 16:22:05 -8.050° 52.959° SEP 7 16:22:10 -7.425° 52.922° SEP 7 16:22:15 -6.800° 52.881° SEP 7 16:22:20 -6.172° 52.837° SEP 7 16:22:25 -5.544° 52.790° SEP 7 16:22:30 -4.915° 52.741° SEP 7 16:22:35 -4.284° 52.688° SEP 7 16:22:40 -3.652° 52.633° SEP 7 16:22:45 -3.018° 52.574° SEP 7 16:22:50 -2.383° 52.513° SEP 7 16:22:55 -1.746° 52.448° SEP 7 16:23:00 -1.108° 52.381° SEP 7 16:23:05 -0.467° 52.311° SEP 7 16:23:10 0.175° 52.237° SEP 7 16:23:15 0.819° 52.161° SEP 7 16:23:20 1.466° 52.082° SEP 7 16:23:25 2.115° 51.999° SEP 7 16:23:30 2.767° 51.914° SEP 7 16:23:35 3.422° 51.825° SEP 7 16:23:40 4.081° 51.734° SEP 7 16:23:45 4.743° 51.639° SEP 7 16:23:50 5.409° 51.541° SEP 7 16:23:55 6.080° 51.441° SEP 7 16:24:00 6.756° 51.336° SEP 7 16:24:05 7.435° 51.229° SEP 7 16:24:10 8.123° 51.118° SEP 7 16:24:15 8.817° 51.004° SEP 7 16:24:20 9.520° 50.887° SEP 7 16:24:25 10.231° 50.766° SEP 7 16:24:30 10.952° 50.641° SEP 7 16:24:35 11.685° 50.512° SEP 7 16:24:40 12.431° 50.380° SEP 7 16:24:45 13.192° 50.243° SEP 7 16:24:50 13.971° 50.102° SEP 7 16:24:55 14.770° 49.957° SEP 7 16:25:00 15.594° 49.806° SEP 7 16:25:05 16.447° 49.649° SEP 7 16:25:10 17.335° 49.487° SEP 7 16:25:15 18.268° 49.317° SEP 7 16:25:20 19.258° 49.139° SEP 7 16:25:25 20.322° 48.950° SEP 7 16:25:30 21.490° 48.748° SEP 7 16:25:35 22.811° 48.526° SEP 7 16:25:40 24.375° 48.275° SEP 7 16:25:45 26.023° 47.995° At the beginning of the track (over the Britsh Isles) you would have to be within about 2 or 3 km of the central line to see something. Toward the end this is relaxed to about 10 km. Of course it all depends on how well the pre-launch elements are and whether against all odds the Shuttle actually gets launched on time! Gerhard HOLTKAMP Darmstadt, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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