ISS through thin cloud

From: John Locker (john@satcom.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Sat Dec 06 2003 - 05:46:15 EST

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    Two orbits after Mike Foale spoke to  German students via the Ham Radio link
and answered a number of their questions , the station passed over the UK ,
just visible through thin cloud.

Despite the conditions it was possible to grab about 100 useable images of
the complex , albeit at long range.
I have placed an image here : http://www.satcom.freeserve.co.uk/decpan.jpg
showing the increase in visible magnitude and gradual fade into shadow.
These are raw frames , reduced in size by 50% .
Examination of  single frames shows the possible position of  a  Progress at
the nadir port .

ISS main page  http://www.satcom.freeserve.co.uk/  and click the ISS patch.


Regards,

John.




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