Full Moon Crossing
Full Moon Crossing
Credit & Copyright: Ed Morana
Explanation: On October 6th, a nearly full
perigee Moon shone in Earth's night sky. The bright
moonlight, accurate planning, and proper equipment resulted in
this amazing composite featuring sharp silhouettes of the International Space Station (ISS) as it rapidly crossed (right to left)
in front of the lunar disk. The picture was constructed using six video frames recorded from a site just outside Tracy, California, USA. Sporting newly deployed solar arrays,
the ISS was at a range of about 260 miles from the telescope/video camera setup. In the background, about a thousand times more distant than the ISS, lies bright lunar ray crater
Tycho.
Full Moon Crossing
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