pulse Report This Comment Date: January 05, 2011 11:40PM
Image of the solar transit of the International Space Station (ISS), taken from
the area of Muscat in the Sultanate of Oman on January 4th 2011 at 9:09 UT,
during the partial solar eclipse. Takahashi FSQ-106ED refractor on EM-10 mount,
Canon 5D mark II. 1/5000s exposure at 100 iso.
Transit forecast calculated by www.calsky.com (many thanks to Arnold Barmettler
for his help).
Transit duration: 0.86s. ISS distance to observer: 510 km. Speed in orbit:
7.8km/s (28000 km/h or 17000 mph).
The image shows three planes in space: the Sun at 150 million km, the Moon at
about 400000 km and the ISS at 500 km.
Credit: Thierry Legault [
legault.perso.sfr.fr]
AnonSackman Report This Comment Date: January 06, 2011 07:04PM
I'm pretty sure that's a TIE Fighter and not the ISS
pulse Report This Comment Date: January 07, 2011 12:55AM
Certainly looks like one..
Maybe that's the Death Star not the moon moving infront of the Sun?
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/01/2011 12:56AM by pulse.
Onyma Report This Comment Date: January 07, 2011 03:07AM
The other small round dot could be a Millennium Falcon
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: January 07, 2011 03:26AM
pac man has zits and is yawning