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Space station transits the sun photo

 
 
Reply Wed 30 Jul, 2008 08:29 am
Space station transits the sun photo

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/09/20/shuttle-and-iss-transit-the-sun/
 
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Reply Wed 30 Jul, 2008 09:18 am
I'm afraid to open that link.

I might burn my corneas.
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Reply Wed 30 Jul, 2008 09:35 am
Amazing photo's!

Did you go to his site? Unbelievable stuff! Very cool.
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Reply Thu 31 Jul, 2008 07:50 pm
Particularity impressive when you realise the Sun appears as 31 arc minutes wide to someone on the Earth, the Earth is revolving at 15 arc seconds per second but if the station is travelling counter to this revolution you have only 1 second to set this shot up to catch the transit and fly-by.

So some great preparation to take this shot!
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