That’s a space station!
Astrophotographer Thierry Legault travels to Oman to get to the one spot on earth where he can snap a shot of the ISS transiting the sun during a partial solar eclipse. The ISS transit takes about 1 second, which doesn’t leave a lot of room for error for hitting the shutter release. Granted he’s had several other funky solar transit shots featured on Plait’s blog, but this one takes the cake IMO.
Too freaking cool.
Awesome!
Cool!
Isn’t it super-cool? The amount of planning it took to have a chance at that shot is mind-blowing.
Whoa.
Thanks for the link. That is some very cool stuff. How long ago was it that Bad Astronomer(sp?) last posted here?
Daaaaaayuuuuuuummmm!
11-22-2004
When I sent my wife the picture, with no set-up, her first comment was “It’s Darth Vader!”
Wow.
I will say, however, that it’s very sad that Phil has lost all his enthusiasm and excitement about this sort of thing.
Mine too.
Very cool!