Hi All, Correction to last message regarding ISS glints -- bright glints off the small solar panels occur on descending node passes in the early morning, not in the evening. Whatever was glinting for Ed had a surface normal that was pointing about 15 degrees aft of starboard, and about 45 degrees down toward nadir from the horizontal. Looking at a picture of ISS, the only thing that seems to fit would be the small solar arrays on the Progress attached to the back end of the station (at least I *assume* that's a Progress in this picture): http://spaceflightnow.com/ops/stage4a/001209snapshots/withearth.html In this image, I believe the station is flying in the same direction that the camera is pointed (i.e. the Shuttle that took this picture was trailing the station at the time). Cheers, Rob ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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