RE: USA 193 NOTAM released?

From: Jeff Umbarger (jumbarger2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Feb 19 2008 - 00:46:34 UTC

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    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?
    > 
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    > 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
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