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Moon-crossing ISS captured on picture

Posted Oct 16, 2006 at 04:10AM by Mabie A. Listed in: International Space Station Tags: crater, California, Tycho
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ISS waltzing with luna


What you are looking at here is an actual shot of the International Space Station rapidly traversing before the lunar disk. The timing couldn't have been more perfect. The Earth's night sky was bathed with light from an almost full perigee Moon last October 6th. Taking advantage of this, observers from a site just outside of Tracy, California in the United States took a shot of this scene using six video frames.

The ISS, which merely looks like but a small bug on the moon's windshield, was about 260 miles away from the telescope/video camera setup. In the foreground of the picture is Tycho, the bright lunar ray crater. Tycho lies about a thousand times more distant than the ISS to the Earth.

Yeah, it sure makes us wish we were there, don't it?

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