On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Matson, Robert wrote: > Hi Ron and List, > > I want to thank Ron Lee for his dedication in attempting to > observe a satellite transit of the sun, and congratulate him > on his success! If I'm not mistaken, he's only the second > person (the first being Ron Dantowitz) to successfully, > deliberately, observe a satellite transiting the sun. (In > both cases, the satellite in question was ISS). As Ron has > demonstrated, persistence and mobility are the key factors > in successfully pulling off such a feat. Now, can it be > repeated with a different (large) satellite? Ron Dantowitz and myself have observed a sun transit of the space shuttle back in 1998 I think it was. We have 2 8" LX200's, one looking in Ha and one with white light and saw the shuttle crossing the disk of the sun. Pretty cool I must say. On top of that we saw this happen on 2 consecuative orbits as we had found out that a double sun crossing was happening about 30 miles away from us (gotta love GPS!). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marek Kozubal marek@portents.com Portents, LLC www.portents.com http://www.portents.com/marek/ Personal Satellite Tracking System www.meridiancontrols.com / www.skyshow.com "What makes the universe so hard to understand is that we have nothing to compare it to." ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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