Hey Geoff, Could you generate those viewing vectors for: Latitude: +21.325928N Longitude: -158.122452W This is the extreme southwestern corner of Oahu, the Hawaiian island with Honolulu on it. Oahu is farther west than Maui and in a better position to see this event - especially the southwestern corner. If they don't see anything, at least they'll see a typical beautiful Hawaiian sunset! Regards, Jeff Umbarger Plano, TX USA --- "Geoffrey E. Forden" <forden@MIT.EDU> wrote: > I haven't corrected this for atmospheric distortion > (I bow in awe to that!) > these are my *estimates* for viewing from Maui: > > Az: 251.2 > Elevation: 7.8 > > RA: 46.3 > Dec: 20.7 > > These could be off, of course, because I'm really > basing the interception > position on how nice it looks for debris from the > interceptor falling into > the NOTAM. > > Geoff > > > -----Original Message----- > From: John A. Dormer 2 [mailto:jad@texas.net] > Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 7:18 PM > To: forden@mit.edu > Cc: seesat-l@satobs.org > Subject: Re: USA 193 NOTAM released? > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Geoffrey E. Forden wrote: > | Unfortunately, it will be daylight and they will > be looking into the sun, > | but perhaps there will be some fireballs?) > > An acquaintance who grew up on the Kwajelein Atol > test range told me > that anti-missile tests he saw from the area in the > late 1960s had > clearly-visible impacts or explosions from a few > hundred nautical miles, > even in daylight. He had some help looking in just > the right place in > the sky, though. > > Although I have the orbital plane surveillance tool > almost done, it > doesn't have the capacity to point to an arbitrary > fixed azimuth just > yet. I probably won't have time to add that before > the attempt to shoot > down USA 193 happens. This would allow a telescope > to point to a place > in space along the orbital plane which won't > necessarily coincide with > the highest elevation the vehicle will appear to an > observer. > > Honestly, I'm just to the point of adding RA/Dec > conversion as well as > atmospheric correction. > > John > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - > http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHuiAjThFRLa48rEYRAusdAJ9PQAnmovS3dJLV7GJlCCdD87r6aACeMlAL > yF50oSc+eNaZZVb8YuPtNyk= > =8f7H > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked > Questions, SeeSat-L archive: > http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked > Questions, SeeSat-L archive: > http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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