I can't say for certain what, but it seems very likely that something got between the camera and the satellite (a power line, or branch, or bird, etc.). The slight difference in angle, between the camera and your naked eye observation could account for the camera seeing the interruption and not your eye. In a message dated 8/27/00 2:26:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time, sashal@surfree.net.il writes: > I've tried to record the pass of mir over my house at about 5:25 with a > video camera, everything went well, mir appeared at the correct time. > While i was recording mir suddenly blinked fast once and disappeared > from the cam's screen but it was still visible to the eye. > Is this normal and will always happen on cam? -- Regards, Stephen 28.37612N 81.35404W Orlando, FL Satellite Hunting™ visible pass prediction shareware v2.0.2 http://stephen.fathom.org/sathunt.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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