jay@npois.UUCP (Anton Winteroak) (12/02/85)
The following times are EST. please add 2 hours and 45 minutes
to account for the speed of light delay.
Nov 4th Begin making time lapse movies of Uranus' rotation (7 in all).
Jan 10th Begin "far-encounter" sequence.
Jan 23rd Predicted entry into Uranus' magnetosphere if it exists.
23:41 occultation by rings of a 2nd magnitude star.
Jan 24th
10:11 pass within 231,000 miles of Titania
11:13 pass within 293,000 miles of Oberon
11:22 pass within 79,000 miles of Ariel
12:05 pass within 18,000 miles of Miranda
12:17 ring-plane crossing (search for particles).
13:00 pass within 51,000 miles of cloud tops.
13:20 Uranus occults a bright star.
13:28 Rings occult a bright star (Algol)
15:25 Voyager passes through shadow of Uranus
15:38 Uranus blocks radio contact with earth for 82 minutes.
15:53 pass within 202,000 miles of Umbriel
16:45 Voyager comes out of the shadow.
17:00 Radio contact resumed
22:42 High resolution search for auroras on Uranus' darkside.
Jan 25th Resume "far-Encounter" sequence.
Feb 25th Uranus encounter complete.
August 25th, 1989, Neptune Flyby.
If anyone cares, the data will be sent back at 21,600 bits per second.
With the encoding scheme, this will allow one image to be sent every 4 minutes.