> P.S. Has anyone else sensed that it looks like a transit is not going to occur when the satellite is at least 15 degrees from an object that you know it is going to cross? I dunno- I only predict them, I never get to actually see them.... Actually, I have seen a few solar transits, though of course you only see them as they're happening. I actually have a 63° elevation solar transit predicted for tomorrow, only a mile or so away (according to Monday's prediction- the MCC hasn't updated the ISS TLE page since then, so I guess I'll have to check OIG and/or CalSKY for some fine tuning), and miracle-of-miracles the weather forecast for tomorrow is "mostly sunny," so I'm hoping to bag my first video: http://iss-transit.sourceforge.net/firewire-webcam.html Monday, there's a 51° Jupiter encounter predicted 61 miles away, thru Charlotte, NC. If the weather offers some hope of actually being able to see it, I'll give that one a go. A year ago, right after I got my 'scope (the SE U.S. had the wettest spring on record last year, naturally!), I did actually get to see a sunlit lunar transit- the storm clouds were very accomodating in almost totally clearing just before the transit. As the ISS crossed the lunar terminator into darkness, it seemed to explode with a brilliance I could almost feel! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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