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- From: ucap22a@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Alisdair R Davey)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Re: has anybody seen ...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.142110.6298@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 14:21:10 GMT
- References: <92356.185824ALPAR@TRMETU.BITNET>
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- Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium
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- In article <92356.185824ALPAR@TRMETU.BITNET> ALPAR@TRMETU.BITNET writes:
- >
- > Hi friends
- > During last total lunar eclipse on 12/09/1992 I observed a star very close to
- >moon . The temperature was about -10 degrees centigrades so on my telescopes ob
- >jective there was a thin ice layer so I couldn't decide if it was a real star o
- >r an internal reflection . Neither on my photos nor on video cassete I couldn't
- > see any star close to moon . The star was about 50 arc seconds west from the m
- >oon maybe that was why I couldn't define the star on computer simulations .
- > Has anybody seen that star ? Can anybody tell me which star it was (HD number
- > or something like that) ?
- >
- > Alper Ates
-
- I observed and timed an occultation before totality - but have not yet
- had time to figure out which it was. I didnt see it reemerge.
- Alisdair
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