Murphy's law intervened on two counts: (a) despite the moon being visible from time to time around the time of the transit, cloud covered it at the exact time. (b) though the transit would still have been interesting, it was not during the spacewalk which was aborted owing to problems with oxygen leakage from a spacesuit. Robert (I have not calculated my exact coordinates at the time, and there seems to be no need to do so now in view of the unsuccessful observation.) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Holdsworth" <robbonz1@xtra.co.nz> To: "Seesat List" <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 6:46 AM Subject: ISS lunar transit during spacewalk > We have a lunar transit in the Wellington area this afternoon New Zealand > time during the EVA ("spacewalk.") The transit is at 15:19:45 local > (03:19:45 UTC.) and if the EVA lasts the full 6 hours it will conclude > shortly after this at 03:50 UTC. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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