Re: forwarded moon transit movie

From: Michael Gill (eclipsechaser@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 24 2001 - 08:30:37 PST

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    This is a mistake.
    

    Raoul’s posting on Fpspace concerned his visual observation of Mir crossing the Moon on January 6th.
    

    He did NOT shoot the video nor was it shot at that location.
    

    Raoul’s view of this video is that looks like "a bird or a flying piece of paper."
    

    Michael Gill.

    

    

    >From: Robert G Fenske Jr 

    >Reply-To: 

    >To: "Satellite Observer's Mailing List" 

    >Subject: Re: forwarded moon transit movie 

    >Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 08:25:40 -0600 (CST) 

    > 

    >On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Ed Cannon wrote: 

    > 

    > > 5. Is any more information available on the lunar transit 

    > > movie -- date and time, observer's location? 

    > 

    > Yes there is. A note about the video was also posted to the astro 

    > mailing list. This post included the text below, which I take to be 

    > the original post to the fpspace list. 

    > 

    > >At 08:16 PM 01/06/2001 +0100, Raoul Lannoy wrote: 

    > > 

    > >Hello all, 

    > >At around 16:18 UT, I went to the attic, finally saw 

    > >Venus above an appartment roof, on the other side of the 

    > >street and turned my back to have a look at Jupiter and 

    > >the Moon with my 20 x 80 binoculars. Suddenly, I see a 

    > >point of light rushing towards the Moon (it had no 

    > >blinking lights and followed a familiar ISS or MIR path) 

    > >and it CROSSED the MOON, yes, it went inside the Moon and 

    > >crossed it in a fraction of a second. I'm quite puzzled 

    > >because I don't remember seeing it on Heavens Above, so 

    > >early, and check the time: 16:20 UT. Back to the PC, I 

    > >check Mir's passages. There's only one at 17:54. 

    > >However, tomorrow, there are 2 passages and there are 94 

    > >minutes between 2 orbits. If you substract 94 minutes 

    > >from 17:54, you arrive at.....16:20 !!! 

    > >I live at 51d12m25sN-4d25m21sE 

    > >This was totally unexpected! 

    > > 

    > >Raoul 

    > 

    > 

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