Re: Program for daytime sats transiting Sun?

From: Thomas Ashcraft (ashcraft@heliotown.com)
Date: Sat Mar 06 2010 - 00:24:51 UTC

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    Thomas Ashcraft wrote:
    > I am in the process of setting up a solar telescope for solar flare 
    > monitoring and I just witnessed a satellite passing across the Sun's 
    > disk.  
    A day later.
    
    I spent the day attempting to video capture sun crossers using Calsky 
    predictions ( Thank you Calsky folks for your fine work.). I had a clear 
    sky and excellent view of the solar disk with a Hydrogen-alpha solar 
    telescope but could not detect any sats at the appointed times. I'm not 
    sure if the Hydrogen-alpha filtering made a difference as I can detect 
    very fine detail on the Sun. Maybe a regular white light filter would 
    have been better. Not sure.
    
    In trying to research the subject on the internet all I could come up 
    with were a few images of the space station and the shuttle in front of 
    the Sun, no other sats.
    
    In any case, it was an interesting hunt and I hope to try again in the 
    future.
    
    Clear skies and thank you all for the software references.
    
    Thomas
    
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    Thomas Ashcraft
    www.heliotown.com
    New Mexico
    
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