snowdog@athena.mit.edu (Richard the Nerd) (06/14/88)
Hi! These are predictions for the passes of the Soviet space station Mir over San Francisco. Since the Soyuz TM-5 is now docked to Mir, the complex is now about 0.5 magnitudes brighter than usual! These passes should indeed be spectacular. According to Mr. K. Kenny who has been very helpful in keeping me up to date (he gets all the good weather!), Mir is 7 seconds early compared to the element set upon which this prediction was based. If you would like to receive predictions like this, calculated for your own location, send me email. For smooth operation, it would help if you could find your exact coordinates and time zone. -Rich Prediction for: San Francisco CA Lat: 37.800000 Lonw: 122.400000 Ht: 0. Zone: 8.00000 DST: 1.0 Satellite: Mir 16609 Age: 10.3 days Unc: 46 sec Local Date: 1988 6 14 TIME MAG ILL AZ EL R.A. DEC RANGE VANG -------- ----- --- --- -- ----- ----- ----- ---- 21:46:30 3.0 18 344 29 06:21 74.4 669 0.48 21:46:50 2.3 26 355 35 06:03 85.5 584 0.63 21:47:00 2.0 31 2 37 19:28 87.7 550 0.70 21:47:10 1.7 37 11 40 18:47 80.4 524 0.77 21:47:20 1.4 44 22 42 18:42 72.4 507 0.82 21:47:30 1.2 51 33 43 18:40 64.0 500 0.85 21:47:40 1.1 58 45 42 18:40 55.5 504 0.84 21:47:50 1.1 65 56 41 18:40 47.4 517 0.79 21:48:00 1.0 71 65 39 18:41 39.7 539 0.73 21:48:10 1.1 76 73 36 18:41 32.8 570 0.66 21:48:20 1.2 80 80 33 18:42 26.6 608 0.58 21:48:30 1.3 83 85 30 18:43 21.1 651 0.51 21:48:40 1.4 86 90 27 18:44 16.4 700 0.45 Prediction for: San Francisco CA Lat: 37.800000 Lonw: 122.400000 Ht: 0. Zone: 8.00000 DST: 1.0 Satellite: Mir 16609 Age: 11.3 days Unc: 56 sec Local Date: 1988 6 15 TIME MAG ILL AZ EL R.A. DEC RANGE VANG -------- ----- --- --- -- ----- ----- ----- ---- 22:12:20 3.1 21 280 25 09:42 23.4 743 0.40 22:12:40 2.5 27 272 30 10:19 20.0 644 0.52 22:12:50 2.2 32 266 33 10:40 17.6 602 0.60 22:13:00 1.9 37 260 36 11:04 14.7 565 0.67 22:13:10 1.6 43 251 39 11:29 11.3 536 0.75 22:13:20 1.3 50 242 41 11:56 7.3 515 0.81 22:13:30 1.1 57 231 42 12:24 2.9 504 0.84 22:13:40 1.0 64 219 43 12:53 -1.8 503 0.84 22:13:50 0.9 71 208 42 13:21 -6.3 512 0.82 22:14:00 0.9 77 198 40 13:47 -10.6 531 0.76 22:14:10 1.0 82 189 37 14:12 -14.5 559 0.69 22:14:20 1.1 86 182 34 14:36 -17.9 594 0.61 Prediction for: San Francisco CA Lat: 37.800000 Lonw: 122.400000 Ht: 0. Zone: 8.00000 DST: 1.0 Satellite: Mir 16609 Age: 13.3 days Unc: 77 sec Local Date: 1988 6 17 TIME MAG ILL AZ EL R.A. DEC RANGE VANG -------- ----- --- --- -- ----- ----- ----- ---- 21:29:20 3.1 18 271 26 09:30 16.8 723 0.46 21:29:40 2.5 26 260 30 10:08 11.9 641 0.58 21:29:50 2.2 31 254 33 10:29 8.7 609 0.64 21:30:00 1.9 36 246 35 10:52 5.2 584 0.70 21:30:10 1.7 42 237 36 11:17 1.3 567 0.74 21:30:20 1.5 49 228 37 11:42 -2.9 559 0.76 21:30:30 1.4 55 218 37 12:07 -7.1 560 0.76 21:30:40 1.3 62 209 36 12:32 -11.2 571 0.73 21:30:50 1.3 67 201 34 12:57 -15.1 590 0.69 21:31:00 1.3 72 193 32 13:20 -18.6 617 0.63 21:31:10 1.4 77 187 30 13:42 -21.6 651 0.57 21:31:20 1.4 80 181 28 14:02 -24.2 690 0.51 21:31:30 1.5 83 177 25 14:21 -26.5 735 0.45 Enjoy!