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DB2OS > SAT 14.08.99 13:16l 57 Lines 2015 Bytes #999 (0) @ DL
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Subj: MIR+Sofi nochmal..
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From: DB2OS @ DB0FD.#NDS.DEU.EU (Peter)
To: SAT @ DL
Hallo,
aufgrund des schlechten Wetters gab es leider wohl keine
Möglichkeit die MIR-Station während der Sonnenfinsternis
zu sehen, auch nicht von Süd-England oder Nord-Frankreich aus.
Dafür konnten aber die Kosmonauten die Sonnenfinsternis
beobachten!!!
Hier ein Bericht (auszugsweise):
...the three cosmonauts orbiting the earth became the first people to
see from space how the moon's shadow raced over the earth during the
eclipse of the sun, controllers said.
The two Russians and one French cosmonaut had two chances to observe the
phenomenon during their orbit.
``They (the cosmonauts) paid a lot of attention to the shadow of the
moon moving over the earth's surface. This has never been seen by any
person, no one has ever seen this before from space,'' said Viktor
Blagov, deputy flight chief.
The last solar eclipse of the 20th century began at 0931 GMT off
Canada's east coast near Nova Scotia. The shadow raced at 1,500 miles
per hour (2,400 kph) across the Atlantic Ocean. It ended when the sun
set at 1230 GMT in India's Bay of Bengal.
Russian NTV television showed the cosmonauts' film, with the huge black
shadow sailing over the earth, blotting out a large patch of the earth
and surrounded by masses of drifting clouds.
Blagov said the shadow was filmed and photographed as it moved over the
southern English port of Plymouth before heading over northern France.
``The shadow was very clearly seen on the background of the clouds,'' he
added.
The diameter of the shadow turned out to appear somewhat larger than the
100 km expected, although this was affected by the angle that the space
station viewed it, Blagov added.
He said that apart from the historic footage of the shadow of the moon
captured by the cosmonauts, astronomers may also find useful scientific
information from the film.
Blagov said the cosmonauts would observe the sun itself when they got
their second chance to view the eclipse.
...
73s Peter, DB2OS
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