Rather disappointing start to a run of morningpasses. The sky went very hazy just before pass time and was brightening at a pace ! ( 0652 BST ) The resultant frames were not very impressive.However what is apparent is that the brightest part of the "new" complex is the P3/P4 integrated truss radiator ! In last weeks daylight capture http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/satcom_transits/daylight.html I could make out a bright return from mid array and wondered if it was the radiator...in this still from this morning , which I have overexposed to show the detail http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/satcom_transits/newrad.jpg , you can clearly see the radiator.....and also the remaining Soyuz. The new array is just visible , but not the P6 , which is in shadow. Here's the short animation from this morning in wmv format......by increasing brightness when viweing , the P3/P4 array can just be seen....... http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/satcom_transits/sept30a.wmv It will be interesting to see what happens when the new array becoms sun pointing. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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