Thought some of you non-ATVSIG folks might also be interested in this...
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Rodney S Fritz
To: Walt Haake ; Tim Johnson ; Rod Fritz ; Paul Sheffield ; Mike Peddicord ; David Jacobs ; Darryl Widman ; Carl Stengel ; Bruce Wilson ; Bruce Gordon ; Joe Heumphreus
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 3:59 PM
Subject: Fw: (4/28-5/01) Satellite Pass Predictions

ATV SIG Members,
 
If you have trouble sleeping and are up early in the morning, try listening for MIR SSTV during the passes below.  There is no guarantee that there will be transmissions and doppler effects may shift the 145.985 MHz freq up to 5 KHz, but some of the best things in life are a crap-shoot after all.  These are also good times to visually see the space station since it is sunlit and the sky will be quite dark.  It will appear to be the fastest moving "star" in the sky.  Have fun!
 
73s,
Rod WB9KMO
 
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From: Liftoff to Space Exploration
To: rfritz@west.net
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 6:18 AM
Subject: (4/28-5/01) Satellite Pass Predictions

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Start Time: 4/28   Latitude 34.445262
End Time: 5/01   Longitude -119.802509
Time Zone: UTC-8.0      

MIR approx. visual mag = -0.5
Date
(mm/dd)		 Rise Set Duration
(mm:ss)		 Sun Lit
(mm:ss)		 Max.
Elevation		 Aprox.
Image
4/29 05:01:00am NW SE 09:45 09:45 78  SSW
4/30 03:45:07am NW ESE 09:15 09:15 22  NE
5/01 04:03:41am NW SE 09:45 09:45 75  ENE

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