Timing.

Well, what can you say?  Skills. Getting a decent snap of the solar eclipse is hard enough, but combining it with the moment that the international Space Station whizzes by takes proper effort. The ISS takes less than a second to cut across the sun from our position.

Also, as an idea of scale, the sunspot bottom right is about twice the size of earth. ( And no, that does not make the ISS mahoosive.) For an explanation, just ask Father Ted…some things are small, some are far away. And some are both 🙂

Thanks Thierry Legault.

Discussion (3 Comments)

  1. A photo of the Partial solar eclipse, the International space station and a sun spot – http://www.duckrabbit.info/2011/01/timing/

  2. AJSomerset says:

    I’m fairly certain that’s actually a TIE fighter.

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