Morning Bjorn Bjorn wrote in reply to my comment: >>If I were a morning observer I would start in the west and work eastwards > Thats seems awfully difficult in approaching dawn with the sun rising in the E > :-)) Not really - if one wants maximum phase effect then you need to observe in the part of the sky with the sun behind you, so in the evening thats looking east and in the morning looking west. Once you get the western morning objects out the way you then go to less favourable phase angles and head towards the eastern objects (in the morning) and try and observe them until the approaching rising sun starts to brighten the sky too much.. I am of coure talking mainly about geosats where a phase angle difference of one or two magnitudes can be vital to seeing or not seeing a satellite. Cheers Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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