Space Station Transits the Sun
As wide as a World Cup football field, the biggest spacecraft ever built makes a impressive silhouette when it passes in front of the sun. Yesterday, Maximilian Teodorescu of Romania caught the winged shadow of the International Space Station in conjunction with sunspots AR2104 and AR2107:
"This is my first attempt to catch the station with a small-sensor camera at high magnification," he says. "I managed to catch the ISS in three frames."
His wife Eliza was right beside him with her own camera and solar filter, and she caught it too. "The moment was all the more spectacular because the ISS path was almost parallel to the very numerous string of sunspots," she notes. One conjunction after another unfolded as their cameras rolled.
With the sunspot number so high, now is a good time to catch ISS-sunspot conjunctions. Check Calsky for local transit predictions.
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