Your observation was a whopping 78 seconds after I saw it transit the sun 407 miles away in South Carolina- not much point in suborbital airliners, if it takes 7 minutes to fly from NY to LA, and 3 hours to check in at the airport... then 2 hours to drive 25 miles to where you're going... > This observation belongs somewhere in my top 10. I was hoping to see a > small black speck transiting the solar disk. What I observed was a > detailed silhouette where the solar panels were clearly different than > the ISS modules. I could even (barely) resolve the gap between the solar > panels. Yimmity. The ISS was about 445 miles away at the time- wait till you see one from about 245 miles! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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