Subject: Administrative: GOES Spring 2012 Eclipse and Keep Out
Topic: GOES Spring 2012 Eclipse and Keep Out Zone/Stray Light Exclusion
Schedules

Date/Time Issued: February 2, 2012 1925 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted:  GOES-13 (GOES-East), GOES-15 (GOES-West),
and GOES-12 (GOES-South America) Imager and Sounder Data

Date/Time of Initial Impact: February 2, 2012 0327 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End: April 27, 2012  0926 UTC

Length of Outage: See tables in detail.

Details/Specifics of Change: The Spring 2012 Eclipse and Keep Out Zone
(KOZ)/Stray Light Exclusion (SLZ) schedules are now available on our
mail web page at http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Operations/GOES/eclipse.html

For your convenience, the eclipse schedules are provided in HTML, Excel
(1997-2000 and 2007-2010), and Adobe PDF formats. The schedules are for
both the Imager and the Sounder instruments, and are for GOES-13
(GOES-East), GOES-15 (GOES-West), and GOES-12 (GOES-South America). The
GOES-13 (GOES-East) schedules include provisions to cover Stray Light
Exclusion (SLZ) frame cancellations (stray light and shifted/partial
frames). GOES-13 (GOES-East) is not affected by eclipse.

Contact Information for Further Information: ESPC Operations at
ESPCOperations@noaa.gov at 301-817-3880

Web Site(s) for applicable information:
See http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Operations/GOES/eclipse.html for full
eclipse schedules.
See http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Operations/GOES/schedules.html for full
GOES scanning schedules and scan sectors.
See http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/messages.html for this and other
satellite related messages.

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