Ulrich Beinert wrote: > > > Ulrich, see this other german site of Josef Huber's > > http://www.iss-tracking.de > > It indentifies this as the anetnna at the end of the truss on Mir > I think the image on that site more or less proves it's the antenna. Thanks > for all of your help. Regarding the image : http://www1.inetservice.de/Kristall/jpeg/Mir/06-mar-01a.jpg Which is shown with a model "posed" to simulate the orientation. I have spent many hours with plastic models of Mir in an effort to positively identify the orientation of my own Mir photos (and the photos of others),and I would "interpret" this particular photograph differently. Please let no one think that I am in any way being uncomplimentary! The images obtained by Joseh Huber and Tobias Lindemann are MOST EXCELLENT ( I wish mine were even half as good) and I hope that they grace us with many more! I have studied dozens (maybe hundreds) of Mir photos and have two plastic models to aid my interpretation studies, I even constructed a rudimentary 3-d model in Autocad and rotated it in various lighting orientations, and I believe that most (not ALL) "disconnected" bright spots are the extended tips of modules or panels emerging from the shadows caused by the station itself. I have posted a comparison page : http://www.bullhammer.com/comparesats.htm I have taken an EXCELLENT image by Bob Citron and adjusted the brightnes and contrast to less favorable conditions (sorry Bob!) , and it is easy to see how some components of the station become disconnected bright spots, and others disappear entirely. I would not have mentioned it except that based on my studies I would have posed the model differently, and I would offer to help anyone with the interpretations of their photographs. -- Tom Troszak, Asheville, NC, USA 35.601 N, -82.554 W mailto:tom@bullhammer.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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