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    Re: Space station over northeast US/Canada tomorrow
    From: Don Seltzer
    Date: 2014 Oct 25, 19:27 -0400
    Bright and clear as seen from just west of Boston.  My estimated line of position was just a bit more then halfway from Frank's MA line to the NH line, putting it within 2 miles of my viewing site.  Unfortunately, I screwed up on trying to record the time.

    Don Seltzer

    On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:56 PM, Frank Reed <NoReply_FrankReed@fer3.com> wrote:

    The attached star chart and ground map for tomorrow evening's ISS pass should provide a sense of scale on the navigational solution here. With simple naked eye observations, it's possible to lay down a line of position parallel to the centerline with an accuracy of about five nautical miles. And if the observation can be timed to the nearest second, then the position along that line would also be accurate to about five miles. The speed of advance is the same as the ground track speed. The ISS (and any LEO satellites) completes an orbit in 90 minutes, so the red line on the ground map is advancing at a speed of just about 14,400 knots which is exactly 4 nautical miles per second. With binoculars, we can refine the location of the line of position relative to the center line by a factor of ten relatively easily, but the timing probably cannot be improved much. 

    -FER



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