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Topic: GOES-12 and GOES-10 Lunar Shadow Cancellations April 27, 2006 Message Issued: April 24, 2006, 2030 UTC Satellites Impacted: GOES-12 and GOES-10 Products Impacted: GOES-12 and GOES-10 Imager Data Date/Time of Initial Impact: April 27, 2006 0845 UTC -------------------------- Details: GOES-10 & GOES-12 will both have a lunar shadow on April 27, 2006. Due to GOES-10 KOZ and the two lunar shadows there will be a period of no imaging at the same time on both coasts, as well as periods of Full Disk coverage. They will go as follows: GOES-10 KOZ ? no imaging: 0830-0850Z and 0900-0944Z (08:30Z Northern Hemisphere, 08:45Z Pacus, 09:00Z Full Disk and 09:30Z Northern Hemisphere) GOES-12 Full Disk coverage for GOES-10 KOZ: 0815-0844Z (reduced from 09:44Z) Changes due to the Lunar shadow: GOES-12: 08:45Z Northern Hemisphere replaces Full Disk for lunar shadow. *GOES-12 Lunar shadow ? no imaging: 09:00-10:56Z * ** THERE WILL BE NO IMAGING ON GOES-10 NOR GOES-12 FROM 0900-0944Z due to GOES-10 KOZ overlapping GOES-12 Lunar shadow. ** GOES-10 Full Disk coverage for GOES-12 lunar shadow: 10:00-10:59Z GOES-12 resumes normal imaging: 11:02Z CONUS and 11:09Z Southern Hemisphere *GOES-10 Lunar shadow ? no imaging: 11:30-12:50Z - no imaging * GOES-12 Full Disk coverage for GOES-10 lunar shadow: 11:15-13:14Z --------------------------- Contact Information: Brian Hughes Satellite Services Division NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD 301-763-8051 x106 Brian.Hughes@xxxxxxxx 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. ============================================================================== To unsubscribe nws-changes, visit: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing-list-delete-form.html ==============================================================================
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