On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Matson, Robert wrote: > > All in all, solar transits are much more likely to be observed than > > lunar transits, and this is confirmed by the record of observations. > > I know of only two verifiable and documented solar transit > > observations: one by Ron Dantowitz as described in the April > > issue of SKY & TELESCOPE, the other one by a Belgian observer on > > 25 June which has not been published so far but of which I have > > a copy of the video recording. Ron Dantowitz and myself also observed (but did not photograph in anyway) 2 conncective passes of the space shuttle in front of the sun 3 or 4 years ago. We were each looking at the sun though 8" LX200's. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marek Kozubal marek@portents.com Portents, LLC www.portents.com http://www.portents.com/marek/ Personal Satellite Tracking System www.meridiancontrols.com / www.skyshow.com "What makes the universe so hard to understand is that we have nothing to compare it to." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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