----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Fly" <tfly@alumni.caltech.edu> To: "Robin R. Wier" <rwier@concentric.net>; "SeeSat-L" <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 9:35 PM Subject: Re: ISS saturn transit > >> Has anyone tried to view the ISS in shadow through a > guided telescope? > > > Up to ~40 seconds after shadow entry on passes directly over > > Phoenix, AZ. Assumed reflected city lighting. > > It's hard to say (without writing a computer program to calculate it) precisely > what "after shadow" means, because of the earth's atmosphere. My timing/definition was/is based on Brent Boshart's Satellite Tracker v2.4.1 program, using the latest available tle's. I have posted a retraction of the above quoted claimed observation. Again, apologies to all. Robin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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