[Chaos-l] Fwd: A Cool Picture

[Terry Crook]

Shoot. There's always a spoilsport in the audience!
Tough crowd here tonight, isn't it Robert?

Taurus Terry in Chapel Hill
35° 55' 47"N, 79° 01' 00"W


On 7/21/2011 5:43 PM, walter fowler wrote:
> Or the skeptic's favorite - there were no shuttles.  All these 
> pictures are done on a black set in a movie lot in California, the 
> same one where the "moon landings" were filmed.
>
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> From: *walter fowler* <walterfowler at gmail.com 
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> Date: Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [Chaos-l] A Cool Picture
> To: robertnielsen at nc.rr.com <mailto:robertnielsen at nc.rr.com>
> Cc: Chapel Hill Astronomical Observation Society <chaos-l at rtpnet.org 
> <mailto:chaos-l at rtpnet.org>>
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>
> Why is the shuttle glow so bright at the highest altitude and it fades 
> as it descends (presumably heating up on the way down)?  Is it because
> 1. it's going from sunlight into the Earth's shadow
> 2. it's just brighter when it's closer to the ISS
> 3. they turn all the lights off when they start their descent
> 4. someone used Photoshop to  "get the best results."
> Other thoughts?    Walter
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Robert Nielsen 
> <robertnielsen at nc.rr.com <mailto:robertnielsen at nc.rr.com>> wrote:
>
>     Wish I was there to see this:
>
>     http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2014.html
>
>     Robert
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