Re: International Space Station crosses the Sun's disk?

From: Ralph McConahy (rwmcconahy4@comcast.net)
Date: Fri Sep 25 2009 - 00:04:08 UTC

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    Joe,
    
    This part . . .
    
    >> . . . [whatever] it was made [its] way across the 
    >> sun in about two seconds. 
    
    and this . . .
    
    >>It appeared about the size of a very large sunspot 
    >>group, maybe an arcminute and a half across.
    
    . . . makes me skeptical.
    
    
    I've viewed the ISS cross the sun. 
    
     1) It zipped across in less than a second. 
    
     2) Even in a telescope it is very small, more like arcseconds, not 1.5 arcminutes.
    
    Therefore, I doubt that's what he saw.
    
    
        Ralph McConahy
        38.3306N, 75.6970W, -25m (WGS84)
    
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