Derby and District Astronomical Society
The Sun in 2009
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The International Space Station (ISS) appears in silhouette against the Sun in this image by Chris Newsome. Chris writes:
"Either there is some dirt on the sensor of my camera or there is dirt on the
mirror of the societies LX90? Or could it just be that while I was imaging the sun
this afternoon, the ISS flew right across the face of it?!
Here is the picture I captured. It was taken with a Canon 400D, Meade LX90 + solar
filter, 1/250th second at 1600ASA. I took a burst of 30 frames in 10 seconds and only
two had the ISS on it (it transits the face of the sun in 3/4sec!). The
centreline of the transit path ran about 500m south of my location in Spondon and
was bang on time at 16:00:10secs!
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