Ted Pittman wrote: >A few days ago, I caught Mir in the daytime with my wife's camcorder. That >was easy. It would be interesting to know how many degrees the Sun was still above the horizon or how many minutes before sunset it was. I suppose Mir was in the eastern sky. >I may try using the camcorder at night. (If I get permission). With >the wider field I can include reference stars which help to locate the >satellite exact position. My experience is that in order to illuminate enough pixels of the camcorder's CCD chip it is necessary to zoom in quite a bit. Anyway, only the brightest stars are recorded, at least with my SONY digital camcorder (analog models may be somewhat more sensitive). Even if you have recorded the position, this is of little use unless you also can determine the time to considerably better than 1 second. Bruno Tilgner Paris, France ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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