Press release with photos of geosynch sats

From: Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 05 2001 - 13:41:42 PST

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    Thanks to Andrew Yee for posting this National Optical Astronomy 
    Observatories (NOAO) press release to the newsgroup: "Satellites 
    Spanning the Sky: Solar Scientist Photographs Distant Commercial 
    Satellites with Basic Camera Equipment".  
    
    The article begins, "Using an off-the-shelf camera set for a long 
    exposure and satellite data freely available on the Internet, 
    solar scientist Bill Livingston has developed a dependable method 
    for taking pictures of commercial communications satellites 
    hovering high above Earth."  
    
    The press release and links to photos can be found at this location:
    
     http://www.noao.edu/outreach/press/pr01/pr0106.html
    
    The photo was taken on January 3, but I can't find a specific time.  
    They are mostly geostationary satellites, but there are two 
    unidentified crossers, and one of them is described in the smaller 
    section photo as a "tumbler".
    
    Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA
    
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