Hopefully we'll hear from Tomas today or tomorrow about what his precise location was- and hopefully it won't just muddy the water that much more. I know that for the Charlotte, NC, Jupiter encounter June 1, the MCC prediction changed by 1.5 miles in 8 days (and apparently was basically accurate, on the day itself); while- assuming that the OIG TLE was accurate for that evening (which I don't know), the OIG prediction changed by 1.5 miles in about 21 hours (and had been basically wrong, 21 hours before the event). Likewise, for the Venus transit, the MCC prediction changed by only 222 meters from June 4 to June 7. The solar transit I observed Thursday couldn't have been off by more than 1' from the MCC prediction (and to my eye, it was probably good to the size of the ISS itself), while in the hours before, the OIG prediction changed over a range of 2', with the best prediction (from the latest TLE) more than 4' off. Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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