Op 16-8-2011 16:38, Thomas Ashcraft schreef: > Cool photo of a Perseid from space, taken by astronaut Ron Garan aboard ISS. > > http://twitpic.com/662hqp > > : > I wonder where the ISS was at the time of that meteor? Maybe there was > also an image of that particular fireball taken from Earth by a meteor > observer somewhere? It would be neat to get multiple views. The picture was taken on 13 Aug 19:17 UTC. ISS was moving from the Gobi near the Chinese-Mongolian border to Beijing, approx. 44-42 N, 111-115 E, at that time. - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. e-mail: sattrackcam@wanadoo.nl Cospar 4353 (Leiden): 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL Cospar 4354 (De Wilck): 52.11685 N, 4.56016 E (WGS84), -2 m ASL SatTrackCam: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/satcam.html Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com ----- _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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