RE: Daylight - re-entry/spacejunk/fireball camera possibilities?

From: Stephen E Bolton (sbolton@nbnet.nb.ca)
Date: Wed Feb 20 2008 - 03:16:04 UTC

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    Didn't Mir re-enter over the Pacific in broad daylight?
    I seem to recall amateur video of that event taken from some island.
    No special filters needed for something that bright.
    But even Venus at maximum brilliance (-4.4 mag) is hard to see in daylight
    with the naked eye even if you know where to look.
    
    Steve Bolton
    New Brunswick, Canada
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Thomas Ashcraft [mailto:ashcraft@heliotown.com] 
    Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:05 PM
    To: seesat-l@satobs.org
    Subject: Daylight - re-entry/spacejunk/fireball camera possibilities?
    
    Just curious:  Does anyone do all sky *daylight* re-entry/junk/fireball 
    visual observing?
    
    I haven't heard of anyone doing this.  It seems that there ought to be 
    an all sky camera ( or special filters) that could detect the signature 
    of daytime fireballs even in a bright sky.
    
    Is there such a thing?
    
    Thanks in advance for any. info.
    
    Thomas Ashcraft
    
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