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Originally Posted by ngcles
Hi All,
Yes very much observable but will be hard to find. You will definitely need a Topocentric ephemeris. Geocentric is of no use because your location on Earth will greatly affect where it is seen in the sky (due to parallax). There is provision at the NASA/JPL site to generate a topographic ephemeris but I just can't find it at present and have to head out.
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The JPL Small Body Database browser seems to be working OK and will generate an ephemeris for a particular location - put 2011 MD in the search box, hit enter, and on the resultant page click on the "ephemeris" link. Then just change Observer Location parameters to your own (Lat/long, height).
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi
Cheers -