Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site eagle.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!eagle!mjs From: mjs@eagle.UUCP (M.J.Shannon) Newsgroups: net.astro,net.astro.expert Subject: Re: StarDate: June 24 Seven Months to Uranus Message-ID: <1273@eagle.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Jun-85 15:53:18 EDT Article-I.D.: eagle.1273 Posted: Sun Jun 30 15:53:18 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 08:28:49 EDT References: <275@utastro.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Summit, NJ Lines: 17 Xref: watmath net.astro:716 net.astro.expert:144 > Around then, late this year, Uranus will be lost from our view. It'll > be in the glare of the sun until shortly before its history-making > encounter with Voyager 2 -- exactly seven months from today. Then, > just weeks before the encounter, Uranus will reappear in our sky -- to > be visible to observers with binoculars before the sun comes up at > dawn. > > Script by Deborah Byrd. > (c) Copyright 1984, 1985 McDonald Observatory, University of Texas at Austin Given the position of Uranus WRT the Earth & Sun, won't this make radio reception of any transmitted signals rather difficult? Or is my knowledge of radio & propagation significantly worse than I think it is? -- Marty Shannon UUCP: ihnp4!eagle!mjs Phone: +1 201 522 6063