1. see http://eclipse.span.ch/250700am.htm for a picture showing (among others) the ISS and Zvezda near the Moon this morning and the Iridium flare, all seen from Montreal. 2. question: on July 31 a solar eclipse occurs. It is a partial solar eclipse in the high northern parts of the planet (at local july 30 sunset in NW USA and NW Canada). High above the planet, in close space, the eclipse would be total . I could imagine that certain satellites will be diving inside the umbral shadow. There should be cameras on weather or spy satellites that could take a photo of the eclipse as seen from space. Can anybody on this list check if there are any sats that will dive in Earth's shadow ? also: when looking from anywhere where it is nighttime at around 02:00 UT july 31 , and provided you also see the high northern nightskies, then you might see a satellite disappear when it dives in the Moon's shadow ! could we check if ISS, or MIR , will get inside the shadow ? if we can see live webcast of ISS docking with Zvezda, then we might also see a total solar eclipse live from ISS ? Oh - my God ! Bad news... as I write this message I just heard on TV news an Air France Concorde supersonic aircraft has crashed near Paris, France, afte take off. God bless them.... Olivier ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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