The Space Station transiting the 4% illuminated moon this morning.
Added 2020-10-14 23:09:22 +0000 UTC
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No just before. I was a little eager to get home and check out my images!
2020-10-15 18:33:26 +0000 UTC
Magnificent work as usual. Did you stream afterwards? Had to do some work that's why I couldn't join afterwards
2020-10-15 18:18:45 +0000 UTC
Answering my own question after a facepalm moment: about a thousand times bigger, so 100km long, vs 100m long. Surprise! :-) Seeing as the Moon's diameter is about 3500km, it's not hard to imagine a row of about 35 international space stations stretching from one edge to the other, indeed!
2020-10-15 08:42:24 +0000 UTC
Beyond awesome shot! Would love to learn the details involved in planning for such a shot. Funny how the brain "wants" to think the ISS is orbiting the moon, in this picture. I needed to force myself to remember that the moon is 1000 times further away from Earth than the ISS is. (400.000km vs 400km). Random question: how big would the ISS need to be in order to appear like this to us, if it was in fact in orbit around the Moon instead of Earth? :-)
