Stunning results Thierry , thanks for sharing them. Regards John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thierry Legault" <legault@club-internet.fr> To: "seesat-l" <seesat-l@satobs.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 9:14 PM Subject: Phobos-Grunt video > hello, and happy new year 2012, to all members of the list! > > This were a special new year's day morning for me, since I was at the > edge of the French Riviera Observatory to take the last passage of > Phobos-Grunt over France, after weeks of bad weather. > > The video with all available shooting details is on this page: > http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/phobos-grunt.html > > There is no sign of tumbling, and a video taken 24 hours before in > close conditions shows PG in a similar orientation. The unexpected > thing that I realized when I looked carefully at the video is that PG > is moving backwards, with its solar panels deployed but at the > opposite of the Sun. It's not surprising that it had no energy to > communicate! > > regards > > > > Thierry Legault > www.astrophoto.fr > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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