On the off chance that there are some observers in the Caribbean willing to get up early Sunday morning around 9:30 UT, 4-NOV-07, here is a prediction of a flare by the aft skirt of the Hubble Space Telescope while it is taking a picture of comet 17/P Holmes at the same time. Given are the times in UTC (4-NOV-07), latitude and longitude of the point of maximum flare. The places concerned are the eastern tip of Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and a few smaller islands. I don't know how far you can be from this line to still see a flare but I guess within 20 or 30 km of it you'll probably be able to see something. 9:27:15 20.301N 75.051W 9:27:30 20.083N 74.039W 9:27:45 19:856N 73.040W 9:28:00 19.617N 72.044W 9:28:15 19.369N 71.052W 9:28:30 19.111N 70.064W 9:28:45 18.842N 69.080W 9:29:00 18.563N 68.099W 9:29:15 18:274N 67.122W 9:29:30 17.975N 66.149W 9:29:45 17.665N 65.180W 9:30:00 17:346N 64.214W 9:30:15 17.017N 63.253W 9:30:30 16.678N 62.295W With a wide angle lens or a fish eye it would actually be possible to take a picture of the flare together with the comet (and later during the pass while the HST is still taking pictures of the comet it would be passing quite close to it as viewed from the Carribean). Gerhard HOLTKAMP Darmstadt, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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