Re: Lunar transit movie

From: Kevin Fetter (kevin_fetter@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 24 2001 - 00:18:05 PST

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    Rob wrote:
    
    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.
    
    I sould be more carefull of what I post.
    
    I do know that if a satellite is not lit by the moon then it would appear as 
    a black dot. I just find that if it was a satellite, that that even seeing 
    it would be difficult. I once had a pass of ocs across the moon, as soon as 
    ocs got near the moon, I lost it, the moon light was too bright. As ocs was 
    lit by the sun, I could imagine even seeing it pass across the moon if it 
    wasn't lit by the sun, and was a black dot. The moon is bright, and seeing a 
    black dot move across it would be alot harder I think, than seeing a sunlit 
    satellite pass across a dark portion of the moon, which to me would look way 
    better. I am still waiting to see a sunlight sat pass across the dark area 
    of the moon.
    I use rob's skymap program to find lunar transits, then have to go through 
    each one to find one that is sunlit. That's because right now skymap, 
    doesn't use the lighting menu to compute transits. It will be great when it 
    does, as it will make finding sunlit satellite passes across the moon, in a 
    dark sky easier to find. But I am sure rob is working on that, when he has 
    the time.
    
    
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