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To: BenLurkin
Yes, the "old" moon. I've been trying to figure out when this was taken. There are, of course, a restrictive set of circumstances required. I'm using Starry Night, which has an altitude setting for the view location, and an estimate of the ground point of the ISS to match up with the ISS tracker. For that I used Google Earth to try to simulate the view of the coast. I believe that's Atlanta in the midground and Nashville closer in. I believe the arc of lights below the moon is the Durham Raleigh area around the dark Cape Hatteras coastline.

It's close to working out for early April, but I can't get the moon up in time for the ISS in that position. March looks way off, but how old could this be? I guess anytime since he went up there. Let's see ... since Dec 21, 2012.

Ah! Feb 6 at 8:10 UT looks perfect. That's gotta be it, unless I'm doing something wrong.

11 posted on 05/01/2013 8:35:41 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew; BenLurkin
Ah! Feb 6 at 8:10 UT looks perfect. That's gotta be it, unless I'm doing something wrong.

... Or maybe the next morning, Feb 7 at 9:00 UT works out a little better. I didn't really follow up with the Google Earth view for the Feb 6 track and I think the ISS was a little too far west at moonrise.

15 posted on 05/01/2013 9:40:30 PM PDT by dr_lew
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