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Old June 15th 04, 11:12 PM
Patty Winter
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In article ,
Jonathan Silverlight wrote:

I posted the question here because I'd seen it asked on
uk.sci.astronomy, and there was a reply that it's on the European
Southern Observatory site at
http://www.vt-2004.org/photos/images/vt-photo-01-toma.jpg. Very
pretty!


Wow, that's some photograph! (Or series of photos, I should say.)
Talk about a once-in-a-lifetime photo!


Patty


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Old June 16th 04, 12:06 AM
Jonathan Silverlight
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In message , Patty Winter
writes
In article ,
Jonathan Silverlight wrote:

I posted the question here because I'd seen it asked on
uk.sci.astronomy, and there was a reply that it's on the European
Southern Observatory site at
http://www.vt-2004.org/photos/images/vt-photo-01-toma.jpg. Very
pretty!


Wow, that's some photograph! (Or series of photos, I should say.)
Talk about a once-in-a-lifetime photo!


My brother was suitably scornful about things you've never seen before
and you'll never see again (an old joke about nuts came up), but it's
still possible that this will _never_ happen again. It's too early to
make predictions for 2012, though.
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Old June 16th 04, 12:06 AM
Jonathan Silverlight
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Default ISS transits during the Venus transit

In message , Patty Winter
writes
In article ,
Jonathan Silverlight wrote:

I posted the question here because I'd seen it asked on
uk.sci.astronomy, and there was a reply that it's on the European
Southern Observatory site at
http://www.vt-2004.org/photos/images/vt-photo-01-toma.jpg. Very
pretty!


Wow, that's some photograph! (Or series of photos, I should say.)
Talk about a once-in-a-lifetime photo!


My brother was suitably scornful about things you've never seen before
and you'll never see again (an old joke about nuts came up), but it's
still possible that this will _never_ happen again. It's too early to
make predictions for 2012, though.
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Old June 16th 04, 09:25 AM
Ed Cannon
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Default ISS transits during the Venus transit

Did anyone catch ISS crossing the Sun during the Venus transit? There's
nothing on http://iss-transit.sourceforge.net/IssVenusTransit.html


I think your message was a day or less before the transit of a transit
photo became known, so now it's on the sourceforge page.

There was a lot of discussion about this on the SeeSat-L list in May
and June, before the fact:

http://www.satobs.org/seesat/May-2004/index.html
http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2004/index.html

Look for ISS and/or Venus and/or transit. I guess that everyone
else who was going to try had bad weather or other bad luck.

They did a lot of work to perfect the predictions, and it was a
remarkable achievement. I accidentally saw ISS transit the Moon
one night (well, except that it disappeared while it was in
front of the too-bright Moon), but they really worked hard to
get that image.

Ed Cannon - - Austin, Texas, USA
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Old June 16th 04, 09:25 AM
Ed Cannon
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Default ISS transits during the Venus transit

Did anyone catch ISS crossing the Sun during the Venus transit? There's
nothing on http://iss-transit.sourceforge.net/IssVenusTransit.html


I think your message was a day or less before the transit of a transit
photo became known, so now it's on the sourceforge page.

There was a lot of discussion about this on the SeeSat-L list in May
and June, before the fact:

http://www.satobs.org/seesat/May-2004/index.html
http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2004/index.html

Look for ISS and/or Venus and/or transit. I guess that everyone
else who was going to try had bad weather or other bad luck.

They did a lot of work to perfect the predictions, and it was a
remarkable achievement. I accidentally saw ISS transit the Moon
one night (well, except that it disappeared while it was in
front of the too-bright Moon), but they really worked hard to
get that image.

Ed Cannon - - Austin, Texas, USA
(Remove "donotspam".)

 




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