> http://www.astrovid.com/images/Multimedia/satdong.rm > > Is this a moon transit from a bird, plane or satellite ? Interesting! For those who can't see the movie (and who care!), it's a very small dark object moving in a straight track silhouetted by the sunlit Moon. In places along the track there are after-images or something almost like "mouse tracks" on an old notebook computer (air turbulence?) In size it's almost like illustrations I've seen comparing the sizes of the Earth and Sun. It appears to cross at least half of Moon in about six seconds, but it's hard to know for sure as only a portion of the Moon is in the frame. The object's shape seems to change in an irregular manner. I'm not good at geometry and so don't know if the geometry would permit this, but to me it looks like it could be a bird or bat (or even an insect?). I'd like to know which direction it was traveling. In the upper right there's a small but very bright crater close to the Moon's limb, and on its path from lower left to upper right it traverses that crater. Of course the time and observer's location would be helpful! Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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