Thursday, May 26, 2011
migrate calendar from palm desktop to google calendar
Long story short: CompanionLink did the job for me. I used Palm version 6.2.2 and Windows XP. It made short work of the migration. I had to run it several times to get the whole 9 years, as I suppose I overflowed the buffers, but eventually I got the whole Palm calendar migrated to Google Calendar. Before doing the migration I went through my Palm calendar and limited recurring events to 2 years, maximum. I don't know if that was necessary, but it seemed prudent.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
The evening sky
It is to be hoped that we will get a clear evening over the Sea of Abaco this week, for the International Space Station will be visible from the Sea of Abaco every night from February 4 through 7. It is a very bright object that moves rapidly across the twilight sky and is easily seen with the naked eye.
Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday will be very impressive displays. Friday it will be less bright.
It will be visible as follows:
Wednesday the 4th for 2.5 minutes at magnitude -0.9 (minus 0.9)
Thursday the 5th for almost 3 minutes at magnitude -1.9 (brighter than Sirius)
Friday the 6th for 1 minute at magnitude 1.3 (not very bright)
Saturday the 7th for 3 minutes at magnitude -1.1 (very bright)
Lower magnitude numbers are brighter, so the brightest display will be on February 5, when the ISS is magnitude -1.9. By comparison, Sirius is -1.4 and Venus is about -4
Here are the times, elevations and direction of the flight path:
Date | Mag | Starts | Max. altitude | Ends | ||||||
Time | Alt. | Az. | Time | Alt. | Az. | Time | Alt. | Az. | ||
4 Feb | -0.9 | 06:23:37 PM | 10 | N | 06:26:01 PM | 22 | NE | 06:28:21 PM | 10 | E |
5 Feb | -1.9 | 06:50:52 PM | 10 | NW | 06:53:50 PM | 65 | SW | 06:56:46 PM | 10 | SSE |
6 Feb | 1.3 | 07:20:15 PM | 10 | WSW | 07:21:22 PM | 12 | SW | 07:22:29 PM | 10 | SSW |
7 Feb | -1.1 | 06:11:02 PM | 10 | NW | 06:13:55 PM | 47 | SW | 06:16:47 PM | 10 | SSE |
So, for example, on February 4, the ISS will appear 10 degrees above the Northern horizon at 18:23:37. It will travel from N to NE and disappear 22 degrees above the NE horizon at 18:28:21.
The ISS will next be visible February 14 – 18. For further information, go to heavens-above.com
Mark Anderson
S/V Seabbatical