Think of images of ISS transiting the sun: http://cosmicjoker.squarespace.com/storage/legault1_strip.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1274280403506 Now realize the geosats are 22k miles versus 200 miles or 100 times smaller plus I'm guessing the ISS is at least 3 times as long as the biggest geosat (probably 8) so that brings us to 300 times smaller. Or only 100 times smaller than the space shuttle in the above solar transit linked image. I guess it's possible but I doubt it. You won't see any detail. Just a dot if anything. On the other hand, the transit takes 2 minutes versus well under a second. So in a video you might just make out a moving dot. - George Roberts http://gr5.org -----Original Message----- From: Ramon van der Hilst Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 12:33 PM To: Seesat-L Subject: Re: spaceweather - EQUINOX SUN OUTAGES Might it then be possible to see the geosats transit the Sun, or are they too small at that distance? On 7 March 2011 15:28, Kevin Fetter <kfetter@yahoo.com> wrote: > At spaceweather > > EQUINOX SUN OUTAGES > > EQUINOX SUN OUTAGES: Many readers reported an intermittant loss of > satellite TV reception over the weekend. Was the sun to blame? Yes and no. > It is likely that the sun caused the problem, but not because of solar > flares. Now is the time of year for the "equinox conjunction," when the > sun > lines up with the satellite and the receiving satellite dish. When this > happens, radio interference from the sun competes with signals from the > satellite and can create noise levels several decibels higher than normal. > The problem, which typically persists for 5 to 15 minutes, is referred to > as > a "sun outage" and is often confused with sunspot or solar flare activity. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20110307/24a7e9c7/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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