I think that "byte order" possibly may be an issue, though I'd think that the QuickTime player should be able to handle either byte order that a movie is coded with. The deal is that Motorola processors (used in Macs) represent the most-significant-byte of a multi-byte number first in memory (i.e., at a lower memory address), followed by lower significant bytes. Intel processors used the reverse order (i.e., lower significant bytes occupy lower memory positions). My favorite ISS photo is the one at the end of http://iss-transit.sourceforge.net; you can click on the photo to go to the Shuttle mission page that the photo is from. It makes me think they should have named the space station Magellan (although Magellan himself didn't make it all the way around the world), or perhaps the Victoria (the only ship of Magellan's that made it back to Spain), since the photo reminds me of nothing so much as a sailing ship of old, exploring uncharted oceans. Only this "sailing ship" circumnavigates the world every 92 minutes, compared to the 3 years it took the Victoria, 500 years ago. (If the Victoria had been continuously circling the world every 3 years since 1519, it would have completed 161 trips by now; the space station has circled the earth about 25,250 times since November 20, 1998!) I saw the 1st, 2nd, and 4th shuttle landings at Edwards AFB. The 4th one was a big deal on July 4th, with President Reagan in attendance, and after the landing, the Challenger, which had just been finished, took off on the back of a 747 for Cape Canaveral. I got right up to the roped off section next to the "runway," and the shuttle flew over me probably 300 feet up, and almost overhead (70° I'd say). It was absolutely huge- the size of a 727 or DC-9, but far more bulky! Sorry I can't be of more help with the movie. Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Wagner" <sciteach@mchsi.com> To: <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 9:48 PM Subject: ISS movie online ... P.S. I read that looking at the ISS is like looking at a 747 jet. When I think of that and see how fast the transit across the sun occurred I am amazed at just how fast rocket propellant can get that hardware moving! ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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