SDO transit of Earth in front of the Sun March 12 2011 to April 2 2011

The predicted transit of the Sun by the Earth as seen by SDO in this video is incorrect. The predicted period of March 21st to April 14th 2011 is incorrect as the SDO satellite is no longer at the co-ordinates provided for SDO by BrianJ. This package is available at the Celestia Motherload repository for Earth orbit spacecraft.

http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/satellites.php

The correct transit dates are from March 12 2011 to April 2 2011 not the March 21 2011 to April 14 2011 dates originally provided in this video.

The update belows provides further details.

UPDATE:

from Pesnell, William D. (GSFC-6710) william.d.pesnell@nasa.gov
to Joe Baptista baptista@publicroot.org
date Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:45 PM
subject Re: SDO co-ordinates?

Dear Mr. Batista,

We are restricted by NASA from releasing ephemeris information for an operating mission. However, the CelesTrak website at

http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/science.txt

has the NORAD 2-line elements that can be interpreted to give the information you need. Your values are about a year out of date and the phasing in the orbit is off by quite a bit.

We are in eclipse season and will experience daily clipses until April 2.

Sincerely,
Dean Pesnell

On 3/16/11 10:54 AM, "Joe Baptista" baptista@publicroot.org wrote:

Dear Dr. Pesnell:

I'm asking because the view I get of the Sun and the recent Earth transit is incorrect using these orbital elements. I use an astronomical package called Celestia to plot these events. It works well for the lunar eclipse of the Sun but not so well for the Earth eclipse we are seeing now. Have a look at my video of it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycZkpVAhK8E

As you can see using the orbital elements I have available for SDO (quoted below) the eclipse starts on March 21 - 22. In fact I believe it started on March 12.

If however the orbital elements I have are correct - then there must be a problem maybe with the Earth orbital elements?

Any Ideas?

regards
joe baptista

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Pesnell, William D. (GSFC-6710) william.d.pesnell@nasa.gov wrote:
Dear Mr. Baptista,

You have a set of orbital elements that is what I expect for SDO. Why do you ask?

Dean Pesnell
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ORIGINAL VIDEO DESCRIPTION

The speed of the transits vary because I controlling the speed - and speed up the program at certain points so we are not left waiting or I don't have to edit this.

The program used for this is Celestia GNOME (1.5.1) running on a Ubuntu OS (10.01). No I don't use windows. But Celestia is also available for windows.

This prediction is made using the assumption the co-ordinate provided for SDO are correct. I am personally not happy with the co-ordinates provided. I suspect based on some of the Lunar transit I have seen from SDO that the satellite has drifted from the co-ordinates provided.

I have contacted the SDO team to verify the co-ordinate I have for SDO.

The co-ordinates used for SDO are as follows:

EllipticalOrbit {
Period 0.997269632
SemiMajorAxis 42164.140
Eccentricity 0.0
Inclination 28.5
AscendingNode 200.3
ArgOfPericenter 39.9
MeanAnomaly 159.0
Epoch 2455239.5
}

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This video was updated Mar 16 2011

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