Amateur radio, space technology and other geeky stuff by Alexandru Csete
I got up early this morning to watch the lunar eclipse. In Denmark only partial eclipse was visible since the moon went down already at around 7:40 UTC where I live. Unfortunately, it was cloudy so I didn’t even see the partial eclipse. Too bad because it seems that my new Fuji HS10 camera with … Read more
On July 11, 2010, a total solar eclipse could be observed in the southern Pacific Ocean. During the eclipse, the AO-51 amateur radio satellite was entering daylight, coming in over South America. When AO-51 enters daylight the solar arrays start charging the batteries. This can be observed in the telemetry as a sudden increase of … Read more