Topic: GOES Spring 2009 Eclipse and Keep Out Zone Schedules
Message Issued: January 30, 2009 1430 UTC
Satellites Impacted: GOES-12, GOES-11, and GOES-10
Products Impacted: GOES-12, GOES-11, and GOES-10 Imager and Sounder Data
Date/Time of Initial Impact: February 9, 2009
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Details:
GOES-12, GOES-11, and GOES-10 data users:
The Spring 2009 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 GOES-12 (East), GOES-11 (West), and GOES-10 (South America).
The schedules can be found by clicking on the blue bar for "Sat Info",
and clicking on the entry for 'Routine 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, Excel, and Adobe
PDF format.
Following are times of GOES-12 full disk scanning operations for the
period February 25, 2009 to April 28, 2009 in order to provide
additional coverage during GOES-11 Keep Out Zone (KOZ) and Eclipse periods:
DATE J-DAY TIME
FEB 25–MAR 01 056-060 0815 to 1014Z
MAR 02-APR 07 061-097 0815 to 1044Z
APR 08-APR 11 98-101 0815 to 1014Z
APR 12-APR 14 102-104 0815 to 1044Z
APR 15-APR 20 105-110 0815 to 1014Z
APR 21-APR 26 111-116 0815 to 0944Z
APR 27-APR 28 117-118 0845 to 0944Z
Following are times of GOES-11 full disk scanning operations for the
period February 25, 2009 to April 28, 2009 in order to provide
additional coverage during GOES-12 Keep Out Zone (KOZ) and Eclipse periods:
DATE J-DAY TIME
FEB 25 056 0430 to 0529Z
FEB 26-FEB 28 057-059 0430 to 0629Z
MAR 01 060 0400 to 0629Z
MAR 02-APR 07 061-097 0400 to 0659Z
APR 08-APR 23 098-113 0400 to 0629Z
APR 24 114 0400 to 0529Z
APR 25-APR 28 115-118 0430 to 0529Z
For more details on GOES-12 and GOES-11 KOZ and Eclipse time periods,
please see: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/eclipse.html
Links to Meteosat and MTSAT-1R eclipse schedules for Spring 2009 are
also available.
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Contact Information:
Brian Hughes
Satellite Services Division
NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD
301-763-8081 x106
Brian.Hughes@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.