From: shag@aero.org (Rob Unverzagt)
Subject: Re: moon image in weather sat image
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In article <1993Apr30.173625.10139@unocal.com> stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini) writes:
> In article <C6B2pA.My4@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> turner@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (George Wm Turner) writes:
> >
> >an image of the moon has been caught in a weather satellite images of the earth.
> >it appears in both the 0430-1500UT ir and visual images of the earth.
> >the GIF images can be down loaded from vmd.cso.uiuc.edu and are named
> >CI043015.GIF and CV043015.GIF for the IR and visual images respectively.
> >
> >pretty cool pictures;  in the ir it's saturated but in the visual image
> >details on the moon are viewable.
> 
> Near midsummer, you can see the relfection of the Sun in the ocean.
> Also during solar eclise you can see the shadow of the sun move
> across the clouds.

Speaking of which, a paper was out a few years ago about a
weather sat imaging a lunar eclipse -- are those images
uploaded anywhere?  I could dig out the reference if there's interest.

Shag

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