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Astrophoto: A Man-Made Sunspot
The International Space Station Transiting across the disc of the Sun on January 9, 2013. Credit: Efrain Morales
The Sun has been active recently along with showing several sunspots. But astrophotogher Efrain Morales captured an additional ‘man-made’ sunspot as the International Space Station transited across the face of the solar disk.
“It was a challenge as the Sun was low on the horizon at 19.5 deg. elevation, just above the canopy of the forest,” Efrain said via email, “along with and the ISS being over 250 miles distant from my location passing over Haiti at the time. His home base is the Jaicoa Observatory in Puerto Rico.
Equipment: SolarMax40, P/B CGE mount, Flea3 Ccd.
Below, see an animation of the ISS transit:
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Post tags: Astrophotos, Efrain Morales, International Space Station (ISS), ISS, sunspots
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2013-01-11 08:47:04
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