Annular Eclipse

[DonAVP]

I go to Astronomy Picture of the Day daily.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Today is an annular eclipse in the India Ocean. I started up Celestia and was watching the eclipse move across the ocean when I saw two small objects fly by close to the eclipse. After turning on satellites I found that they were the Hubble and ISS within 666 KM of each other. Now I know that Celestia does not exactly show the true orbits but it was amazing that I found this. Maybe they will get some interesting images from both satellites from this encounter.

Don



PS How do you make a link with words? I could not figure out how to make "Astronomy . . ." the link?

[LordFerret]

I'm going to look at this in Celestia right now. Thanks!


As for the link question...

Take this link -

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[url]http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html[/url]

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

- and encapsulate the text like this -

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[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html]Astronomy[/url]

Astronomy

[DonAVP]

Thanks LordFerret,

I had saved the coding for this with '<>' but they also have quot marks that delimit the url were the '[]' don't. I will save this so I can cut/paste it in the future. Hope you see what I saw. Otherwise I will have egg on my face . As I also said the orbits maybe off from reality but I don't think it is a lot, just don't know. Maybe some astrophysicist will straighten this out.

Don

[LordFerret]

Don,

My graphics are not that great (I'm still trying to get my OpenGL drivers to work ), but I pretty much got the same result as you...


Also, for future reference... if you hover your cursor over the buttons above the text window (when making a post), a little help balloon will pop up showing the usable format for the BB code... try it on the "URL" button.

Ferret (Alan)