MOON - VESTA, May 30, 07

Moon, May 30,
20h UTC

coords: 15 27 s 23 45
cent long trmntr: w 78.0d
sin long: 0.978
ecc ell: 0.245
dist: 249 701 mi / 401 855 km
diam: 29.7'
illum: 98.4%

Features: Bright and dark crater rays and Mare
lavas. N limb good...
Libration: w 2.14d, n 5.9d

Moon trav 11.126d @ 0.464 d/h

VESTA, 0h UT May 31
16 32 26 s 14 04
5.4 mag, trav 37"/h
Vesta is about 1 deg S of M107

Best to all,
Ben, 90.126 n 35.539

"Ben" wrote in message
ups.com...
Moon, May 30,
20h UTC


Would it make more sense to post a marker thread "MOON - VESTA, June 2007"
and add an update on a daily basis? People who are interested can bookmark
the thread and people who are not interested wouldn't need to.

Just a thought. - what do other people think?

On May 30, 6:27 pm, "OG" wrote:
"Ben" wrote in message

ups.com...

Moon, May 30,
20h UTC

Would it make more sense to post a marker thread "MOON - VESTA, June 2007"
and add an update on a daily basis? People who are interested can bookmark
the thread and people who are not interested wouldn't need to.

Just a thought. - what do other people think?

It's worth a try. I'm not really fond of seeing half the front page
taken up by yesterday's ephemerides. Nothing could be more
dull and it's a bit like having last week's newspapers scattered
all over your den.

Of course one of the reasons I started doing this has to do with
the fact that if the kookloons can waste megagigs of bandwidth
with their drivel, then I can take up a few kilobytes with some
marginally useful trivia. The problem is not as acute here in
uk.sci.astro as it is in sci.astro.amateur however.

But it's a perfectly viable suggestion and if there is an outbreak
of "trollery" I can return to posting "eph + hemera".

OK,
Ben, 90.126 n 35.539