Kevin wrote: > I don't think it's a satellite. Since the moon is lit by the sun, then if it > was a satellite it would also be lit by the moon. It appears as a black > dot to me. I am not able to view the movie, but without doing so I can tell you that unless a lunar-transiting satellite is sunlit, it will look like a black dot against the sunlit lunar disk. A satellite illuminated only by reflected moonlight will be at least 14 magnitudes dimmer than the same satellite under sunlit conditions. But this is immaterial for a lunar transit because the side of the satellite that is moonlit is by definition facing away from you. > ... And the size of it to dosn't seem right. Yes -- quite so. The size and low angular velocity of the dot is what rules out any chance this is a satellite. Probably a weather balloon. --Rob ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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