>Has anyone seen any interesting polarization effects when observing satellites? If the reflections are off a metallic surface, the reflected light would not be polarized much if at all so a polarizing filter should be no different that a neutral density filter. Tom NE Iowa USA ----- Original Message ----- From: <FrankEReed@aol.com> To: <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 5:06 AM Subject: ISS is bright > > VERY bright! > > I was really impressed by ISS a few minutes ago here over Chicago. > At its best, it was mag -2 at *LEAST*. I was intrigued by how > rapidly it faded down to mag 1.0 and then increased again to > mag 0 for a few seconds. The phase angle is becoming more and > more important. > > I experimented with a polarizing filter but I didn't see much > interesting. Has anyone seen any interesting polarization > effects when observing satellites? > > -FER > http://www.clockwk.com/fer ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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