The ISS transiting sunspots!
Taken by Thierry Legault on June 6, 2023 @
Vierzon, France
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So many sunspots currently! Today I estimated the position of the main sunspot group, I tried to place myself on the corresponding transit line...and I caught the ISS passing just in front of the biggest sunspot, in a 0.6 second transit at the speed of 27000 km/h!
That sunspot could swallow the Earth, but it is 300000 times farther than the ISS (150 million km versus 460 km)
Yesterday, the seeing was better and I took a high resolution image of the transit.
Photographer's website:
https://www.astrophoto.fr
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