Or is it really ? Smaller still-shot The Weathernetwork.com & NBC.com in N.A. is featuring the (link at bottom) video of the ISS passing in front ofthe sun , captured by Thierry Legault of France , on his U-Tube page (which spans other U-Tube pages also) . Nice video but I was very surprised to see that the ISS appeared that large against our giant Sun's backdrop . Very interesting . A low orbit of course , just never thought it was quite that low . (really? [no , can't be]) If that's the case , then even I could theoretically capture that event also, with a simple ultra-zoom camera on a tripod (with the proper filters/frame-rate/pass timing ) . The author sports his awesome (ultra-expensive) equipment at the end of the video , but if this video is legit , then I can't help but feel that he's actually misleading people into thinking a huge investmentis required , and only someone of his skill could ever manage such an observational feat . Then again , maybe I'm overlooking something here ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtEVzRx9ktw _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Tue Oct 07 2014 - 04:11:06 UTC
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