01 2002 From: "Thomas Renkevens" <Thomas.Renkevens@xxxxxxxx>
Topic: GOES Fall 2002 Eclipse and Keep Out Zone Schedules
Message Issued: August 01, 2002, 1745 UTC
Satellites Impacted: GOES-8 and GOES-10
Products Impacted: GOES-8 and GOES-10 Imager and Sounder Data
Date/Time of Initial Impact: August 16, 2002
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Details:
GOES-8 and GOES-10 data users:
The Fall 2002 Eclipse and Keep Out Zone (KOZ) schedules are now
available on our web page at http://www.ssd.noaa.gov or more directly at
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/eclipse.html
The schedules are for both the Imager and the Sounder instruments, and
are for both GOES-8 and GOES-10.
The schedules can be found by clicking on the entry for "GOES Special
Bulletins", and scrolling down to the entry for Eclipse Schedules, or by
directly following the link:
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/eclipse.html
Note that all documents can be printed on 8.5" x 11" paper in a
landscape paper setting. For your convenience, the eclipse schedules
provided in HTML, Word Perfect and Adobe PDF format.
Following are times of GOES-8 full disk scanning operations for the
period August 16, 2002 to October 16, 2002 in order to provide
additional coverage during GOES-10 Keep Out Zone (KOZ) and Eclipse
periods:
GOES-8 FULL DISK SCANS TO COVER THE GOES-10 KOZ & ECLIPSE:
DATE J-DAY TIME
AUG 16 - AUG 18 228-230 0845 to 0944Z
AUG 19 231 0815 to 0944Z
AUG 20 - SEP 04 232-247 0815 to 1014Z
SEP 05 - SEP 08 248-251 0815 to 1044Z
SEP 09 - OCT 12 252-285 0745 to 1044Z
OCT 13 - OCT 16 286-289 0745 to 0944Z
For more details on GOES-8 KOZ and Eclipse time periods, please see:
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/eclipse.html
Following are times of GOES-10 full disk scanning operations for the
period August 17, 2002 to October 15, 2002 in order to provide
additional coverage during GOES-8 Keep Out Zone (KOZ) and Eclipse
periods:
GOES-10 FULL DISK SCANS TO COVER THE GOES-8 KOZ & ECLIPSE:
DATE J-DAY TIME
AUG 17 - AUG 20 229-232 0430 to 0529Z
AUG 21 - AUG 28 233-240 0430 to 0629Z
AUG 29 241 0400 to 0629Z
AUG 30 - SEP 16 242-259 0400 to 0659Z
SEP 17 - OCT 07 260-280 0330 to 0659Z
OCT 08 - OCT 15 281-288 0400 to 0659Z
For more details on GOES-10 KOZ and Eclipse time periods, please see:
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/eclipse.html
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Contact Information:
Tom Renkevens
Satellite Analysis Branch
Satellite Services Division
NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD
301-763-8081 x109
thomas.renkevens@xxxxxxxx
See http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/eclipse.html for full eclipse
schedules.
See http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/messages.html for this and other
satellite related messages.
See http://www.ssd.noaa.gov for full GOES scanning schedules.
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