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Old 10-03-2009, 08:04 PM
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I think the March 12th one is going to be below the horizon for us ie Saturn wont have risen in time. Not sure about the March 28th one, will be interested in the answer.

[edit] here's the answer: "After March 12th, there's actually a Titan shadow transit on March 28th, while the Moon itself passes below the planet and that occurs at 8:46pm AEDST. Same again on April 13 and April 29 (the next 2 orbits)." So that translates back to 6.46pm WDT, not good There is a two hour backslide each time (hope I've understood that right) so we've basically missed out chances here in the west for the time being if that is the case.[/edit]

p.s. there are two other threads on the Saturn/Titan transits a bit lower down where reports got posted if you're interested in finding out how other people fared a few weeks ago.
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