Posted on 04/27/2015 1:58:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: What's that in front of the Moon? It's the International Space Station. Using precise timing, the Earth-orbiting space platform was photographed in front of a partially lit Moon last year. The featured image was taken from Madrid, Spain with an exposure time of only 1/1000 of a second. In contrast, the duration of the transit of the ISS across the entire Moon was about half a second. The sun-glinting station can be seen just to the dark side of the day / night line known as the terminator. Numerous circular craters are visible on the distant Moon, as well as comparatively rough, light colored terrain known as highlands, and relatively smooth, dark colored areas known as maria. On-line tools can tell you when the International Space Station will be visible from your area.
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[Credit and Copyright: Dani Caxete]
Some more info on the camera and lens would be nice, not on the site. Great shot, incredible timing.
Now THAT'S a Space Station ....
Maybe someday we will have a space station orbiting the moon
Hmmmm? Looks like it came from the dark side of the moon?
Lunar Terminator? Has Skynet gone mad? It’s one thing to eliminate Sarah Connor, but the moon?
Breaking News! The sun disappeared again in space observations of NASA satellites - March 20, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdNXtkr93fo
lol
Yeah....I think you’re right!
(obligatory Han Solo reference)
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Intriguing photo, and taken in just 1/1,000th of a second. Amazing.
Thank you for posting the neato APOD, Mr. Civilizations.
Looks like one of the sun mission space craft in the SciFi movie “Sunshine” that I saw for the first time the other day.
They nuked the sun in order to save it! Guess what? It worked.
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