Hi everyone... I have been messing around today with a 200mm lens , webcam and solar filter ready for the Mercury transit on the 7th. As the sky cleared this evening I decided to test it out on the sun , and noticed from Kalsky that a solar transit was due , by a Cosmos rocket. I really didnt think that the 200mm lens would pick this up , but ran a 900 mb AVI anyway , a couple of minutes either side of the due time. At precisely the right time , a tiny dot flicked on the disk of the sun.I thought it was a hot pixel , so ignored it.However on thecking the AVI frame by frame , the object appears in two frames , crossing from near centre to upper right limb. Kalsky indicated the following.... Cosmos 2360 Rocket (25407 1998-45-B) Crosses the disk of Sun. Separation:0.24d Angular Velocity:10.8'/s. Transit duration: 1.17s Angular diameter: 1.2" cylindrical, 10.4m x 3.9m Direction towards center line: 21.64km, az:102.9d ESE az: 271.9d W h: 19.2 dist: 1897.7km mag=17.3m So , my question..... Could I have caught the object ? As a temporary measure I have placed the image at the top of my webpage http://www.satcom.freeserve.co.uk , and would appreciate comments regarding the validity of the "catch" Regards, John. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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