Anthony Ayiomamitis wrote: > Dear List, > > Using CalSky this morning to do a quick check for satellite > transits against my location (38-d 17' 59" N, 23-d 44' 33" E) indicates > a lunar transit by the UFO 2 R/B (sat ID 22788) for next Friday (Sept > 26th, 2003) lasting 20.88 seconds. Is this duration correct? > > For the moment let's ignore that it is during a new moon and also > during the day .... a transit lasting for this long seems quite extreme. > > Anthony. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' > in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org > List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > I have checked with my program and I am showing a transit of over 24 seconds. It was a rough input of your location but the satellite will be closed to 7446 km from Earth and 9500 km from your location. Moon passes for that day using McCants Moon Pass Produced: September 21, 2003 10:11:10 AM Location: ? Lat:38.299 Lon: 23.74 Time: (LOC) 26/09/2003 00:00:01 Satellite: Cosmos 1703 r TLE Date: 2003-09-17 19:13:04Z TLE Age: 8.12 days Apoge: 636.3 km Perige: 609.9 km Date Time RA Dec EL AZ Dist(Min)Range(Km) 26/09 08:03:37 12h 23m 46s +01d 17m 33s 19 104 14.0 1514 Satellite: UFO 2 r1 TLE Date: 2003-09-20 08:11:56Z TLE Age: 5.58 days Apoge: 7630.1 km Perige: 248.6 km Date Time RA Dec EL AZ Dist(Min)Range(Km) 26/09 09:06:41 12h 26m 17s +00d 50m 54s 30 116 2.9 9495 Satellite: FORTE TLE Date: 2003-09-18 13:04:46Z TLE Age: 7.37 days Apoge: 822.2 km Perige: 792.1 km Date Time RA Dec EL AZ Dist(Min)Range(Km) 26/09 09:05:13 12h 27m 18s +00d 52m 23s 29 115 13.7 1441 -- Denis Boucher Earth Orbit Objects Software Program http://www3.telus.net/public/boucherd/main.htm denis.boucher@telusplanet.net ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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