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Old 23-02-2009, 02:24 PM
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I reckon start checking it out from 9pm. Titan's shadow comes on first - might even be on by then? Let me go and properly calculate.

Best you work from the animation (if you can work out how to step it):-

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2...ransit2009.gif

The text says:- "The event begins on Tuesday morning, Feb. 24th at 10:54 UT when Titan's circular shadow falls across Saturn's cloudtops. About forty minutes later, the ruddy disk of Titan itself moves over the clouds."

Australian Eastern Summer time is UT + 11 hr, so shadow falls from 9:54pm Tuesday evening 24th Feb.

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At 14:24 UT, all four satellites and their shadows will simultaneously dot Saturn's disk" hence at AEST 1:24am Wed morning 25th Feb.

Hope my conversions are right.
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