Hi All, Don Gardner asked about an estimated flash window for Superbird A for Ulhas Deshpande in central India. Alas, Ulhas is out of luck: Superbird A's flash tracks have already passed India. Indeed, I've been so busy with other projects that I forgot all about posting return predictions for Europe. So this message exchange has served as a wake-up call. Europe: the show has already started! Superbird A is already putting on its nightly flash show for all of western Europe, Africa and the UK. (Actually, early morning). Tomorrow morning (Aug 29) I show European flashes starting at the Rock of Gibraltar at 3:06 UT and sweeping their way northeast to Denmark at 3:19. I show Paris peaking at 3:13, most of Italy and Switzerland at 3:14, London and Brussels at 3:15, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria at 3:16, and Edinburgh at 3:17. As usual, these times are approximate contingent on a well-behaved rotation axis over the last 2 1/2 months. So start looking 10 minutes early to allow for errors in my modeling of the axis precession. Once observed and reported, I can update the axis position, and we'll be back to 1-minute accuracy on nearterm predictions. A recent elset: Superbird A 2.4 2.6 2.2 6.2 d 4.6 1 20040U 89041A 01226.00735297 -.00000088 00000-0 10000-3 0 3009 2 20040 7.7705 50.7725 0003509 101.7311 258.4155 0.99740477 43960 Best, Rob ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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