At 02:36 6/08/01 , Patrick Curran wrote: >Is it possible for this instrument to pick up other satellites in it's FOV? >and if so, can these events be predicted? > >My SOHO image page is at: http://www.iol.ie/~pkcurran/SOHO/latest.htm No Patrick, since SOHO is 1.2million Km sunward of Earth, it cant see too many Eart orbiting satellites. What you remark on is either a comet ( SOHO detects small members of the Kruetz sungrazers at several a month), or a cosmic ray effect on the detector. One can also see the planets at times of solar conjunction. Tony Beresford ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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