wow - this sounds almost incredible to me - possibly we are living in a light polluted area somewhere in Northern Germany - bothe Venus and ISS never seen any shadow around here !! Jörg Robert Reeves schrieb: > > > Some people stated that Venus is capable of making shadows. > > Assuming this is true, and ISS is as bright as Venus(mag -4 on some > > occasions-and probably that bright when it is nearing completion), then we > > must be able to see changing shadows from ISS). > > > > Greetings, > > > > > > Tristan Cools tristan.cools@skynet.be > > Venus does indeed cast a shadow at a dark site. It routinely illuminates > the wall of my observatory when Venus is shining through the dome slot. I > have also seen shadows on the observatory floor from a bright flare by the > HST, so I expect the ISS will eventually also be quite illuminating. I have > also seen a shadow from an unforcast Iridium that flashed me at my > observatory. I was outside tending my meteor patrol cameras when it flared > behind me. The rise in brightness made me think an automobile was coming > around the corner of the road leading up to the observatory. I was > irritated that someone would dare drive up with lights blazing and I was > getting ready to yell at them when I saw it was really an Iridium flare. My > circumpolar camera captured the event and it can be seen at > http://www.robertreeves.com/iridium.jpg > > Robert Reeves reeves10@swbell.net > 520 Rittiman Rd. www.robertreeves.com > San Antonio, Texas 78209 210-828-9036 > USA 29.484 98.440 200 meters > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' > in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org > http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html -- ============ lat=52.35°N - lon=10.25°E ================================ Dr. Jörg Kampmann - IBK-Consult for Real-Time and Embedded Systems D-31228 Peine - Tel.:+49-177-276-3140 - Fax: +49-5171-13385 http://www.ibk-consult.de ===== QNX is the better Choice for Real-Time: http://www.qnx.com ==== ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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