RE: [APML] Venus Transit & ISS

["Dale Ireland" <direland@drdale.com>]

 Jerry
The tracking program is set for our home in Silverdale WA. You see it on the
map. I stopped the tracking with the ISS over Austria at 10:10UT on June 8
as described in the transit video but the text refers to the ISS as seen
from Silverdale so at that moment it was 37 degrees below my horizon and the
next AOS (acquisition of signal) was not to occur until 17UT. You can see
the ground track on the image and it will be 7 hours until the Earth rotates
around to put Silverdale under the track and have the ISS above the horizon
(AOS). Chuck and I receive images from those NOAA sats on the tracking
display (although Chuck's system is much more sophisticated and higher
resolution than mine). Some of my images are here

http://www.drdale.com/wxsat/

Dale

-----Original Message-----
From: astro-photo-bounces@seds.org [mailto:astro-photo-bounces@seds.org] On
Behalf Of Jerry Lodriguss
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 2:55 AM
To: Discussion of Film Astrophotography
Subject: RE: [APML] Venus Transit & ISS

At 12:59 AM 6/28/2004, you wrote:
>Jerry
>I ran the elements for ISS that day and came up with exactly the same 
>pass over Austria so I am sure it is legit. Here is a screenshot from 
>my tracking program
>
>http://www.drdale.com/temp/iss060804.jpg


Hi Dale,

Thank you!

Curious about the AOS and LOS times and the -37.8 degrees elevation. What's
those all about?

Thanks also for the info on the Venus DOT images, I think you are right
about them.

Jerry





>I think there is a mix-up in the captions and translation of that Venus 
>"atmosphere" image on Spaceweather. The exact same caption, in Dutch, 
>is attached to a couple of different images and I think is supposed to 
>refer to this CaII image
>
>http://dot.astro.uu.nl/images/DOT-Venus-Ca-ring.png
>
>The DOT website doesn't appear to make that claim and that ring on the 
>color image sure looks like a processing artifact to me
>
>http://dot.astro.uu.nl/DOT_Venus.html
>
>Dale Ireland
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: astro-photo-bounces@seds.org 
>[mailto:astro-photo-bounces@seds.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Lodriguss
>
>At 11:01 AM 6/27/2004, you wrote:
> >I may have just missed the post but I wonder if you all saw this this
>image?
> >
> >http://science.nasa.gov/spaceweather/venustransit/08jun04o/Maruska1.j
> >pg
>
>
>Hi Chuck,
>
>I had seen this image. It looks legit to me, but a friend in my 
>astronomy club doesn't think it's real because he said somebody ran the 
>elements for the ISS and that this wasn't visible. Maybe he 
>misunderstood that it just wasn't visible from anywhere around here...
>
>But they have a track here:
>http://science.nasa.gov/spaceweather/venustransit/08jun04o/IssVenusTran
>sitTr
>ack-006.gif.
>It says it was taken from the village of Stupava, north of Bratislava, 
>Slovakia, latitude 48°15'29' N longitude 17°01'39' E
>
>Can anyone else do a check for accuracy of this?
>
>Here is another one from the spaceweather page that I wonder about, it 
>is supposed to show the atmosphere of Venus all the way around while 
>the planet is still in front of the sun taken with the Dutch Open 
>Telescope (a professional scope):
>
>http://science.nasa.gov/spaceweather/venustransit/08jun04f/Snik1.jpg
>
>The atmosphere looks too thick to me.
>
>What do you think?
>
>Jerry
>
>



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