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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 -------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------------- 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.
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