Satellite Occultations of the Sun

From: Patrick Walsh (patrickfwd@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Mar 26 2001 - 22:40:49 PST

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    Hi Everyone,
       I haven't sent any mail in a while, I'm too darn
    busy! Anyway, the Mir deorbiting had my undevided
    attention (of course)  and something here caught my
    eye:  Someone was saying earlier that the US didn't
    have any more oppurtunities to observe MIR in the
    dark, but some it would be occulting the sun in some
    locations.  I had no idea an occultation of the sun by
    a satellite was visible.  How can I observe one of
    these events?  I used SatSpy's cone filter today and
    found that a Cosmos rocket would be traversing the
    sun, so I set up my 10" dob with a piece of paper to
    project the image onto, but I saw nothing.  Can
    someone provide more info?
    
    Thanks,
    Patrick
    
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