You would have more than enough light, and since it is slow moving you could get some decent magnification... Seeing might be the limiting factor? On 7 March 2011 18:53, George Roberts <gr@gr5.org> wrote: > 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 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20110307/3e3526d8/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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