Ben BrockertThierry Legault’s latest, a transit of the ISS in front of the sun, timed and angled to be near sunspots.
Erin@wikkit it still blows me away that the ISS can be resolved from the ground, let alone silhouetted in front of the sun.
@ChateauErin It is impressive, I tried to observe it on a 10” Dobsonian and failed.
I did the math once on if you could image some of the secret satellites in geosynch, but it turns out you’d need access to a much larger telescope and a telescope owner who doesn’t notice you adding a solar filter.
@wikkit yeah I guess those satellites are not only smaller, but orbiting about 100 times further up
Rick@wikkit just wow