Dear list, Although I am not a novice satellite observer; my "history" goes back to approx. 1967, I am afraid many of you will not know me because lately I have not been very active as an observer due to other obligations. So here is a short introduction to myself. I am 53 years of age and am living in Loon op Zand in the Netherlands (lat. 51° 37' 34" N, long. 05° 05' 07" E, elev. + 10 m). During the late 60's and the 70's I participated in national and international (e.g. Moonwatch and the Satellite Orbits Group at Slough UK) programmes for position measurements. Later I became a member of the BWGS and observed flash periods of satellites. Also I am editor of a magazine "De Kunstmaan" for the Dutch Working Group Satellites (mainly radioamateurs for weathersatellites). Now the reason for this message; could anyone please help me with the following observation: On 27 May a friend of mine noticed while observing the sun, a black dot transiting the solar disk and he wondered if this might have been a satellite. It crossed the sun from West to East in approx. 8 sec (estimated). It left the solardisk at 06h29m52s (UT) at the Eastern rim. The coordinates of the observer are: lat. 51° 32' 50" N, long. 05° 04' 48" E. My comment: if indeed this was a satellite it should have been at a considerable distance from the earth (several thousands of kilometers) given the slow movement. Would it be possible to see such an object agains the solar disk with the aid of a telescope ? I am looking forward to your comments and possibly you could shed some light on this subject. Regards, Wim Holwerda. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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