Mind's Eye Observatory Site Technical Information
Managed by Citizen Scientist Terry Grage
A Private live Video Imaging Astronomical Observatory & Satellite Tracking Station.Sited adjacent to the St. Sebastian River Preserve State Park in Florida.IAU SAO MPC Observatory code W42
Observatory Location (PGC Standards) Sebastian, Florida
Decimal Degrees (DD) Latitude 27.764554 Longitude -80.534310Degrees Decimal Minutes (DDM) Latitude 27°45.8732' N Longitude 80°32'.0586' W Degress minutes Seconds (DMS) Latitude 27°45'52.3944" N Longitude 80°32'03.516" W
Parallax Constants for MEO =W42 279.46569 0.885511 +0.463056 Mind's Eye Observatory, Vero Beach Florida
Parallax to lat/lon/alt conversion. Parallax constants (rho sin phi' and rho cos phi')convert (in either direction) between parallax constants, of the ρsin(φ) (rho sin phi) and ρcos(φ) (rho cos phi) form, and lat and altitude, and/or Cartesian (xyz) offsets from the geocenter.Ellipsoidal Altitude from WGS84 ellipsoid EGM96 = xxxx

WGS84 NSIDC Arctic Polar Stereographic North (EPSG:3413) (about) Y and X values up to 6 decimal places. Origin (0,0) is the geographic North Pole. -6078356.163381 -4341144.071503

Site Elevation AMSL =22.9659' / 7 Meters Telescope Optics AGL =2 Meters

Open Location Code (OLC) or Plus Code 76VXQF78+R7Bortle Class 4 Artificial / Natural Sky Brightness = 1.00 to 1.73

At Zenith: SQM 20.68 mag./arc sec2 Brightness 0.577 mcd/m2 Artif. bright. 406 μcd/m2 Ratio 2.37



EST Time = -5 UTC ST (-4 UTC DST)"Primary" Time Synchronization: GPS Antenna VK-162 G-Mouse & solution using NEMAtime software.1 σ variation or one standard deviation of <10.000 ms .01 sec RMS in locked status
"Secondary" Time Synchronization: Stratum 1 server Location: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL NTP V3 software (True Time GPS-VME) US FL ntp-s1.cise.ufl.edu (128.227.205.3) (CNAME NTP- ufl.usno.navy.mil)1 σ variation or one standard deviation of <1000 ms 1 sec RMS