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[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

A slovinian astronomer caught the ISS in the quite rare image. I'm impressed on his skill.

I wonder if the Astronauts and cosmonauts took pics of the Transit. Anybody know anything about this?

On June 8th, in a tiny village in Slovakia, Tomas Maruska took a picture that is ... beyond rare. It shows Venus and the International Space Station (ISS) transiting the Sun at the same time. The double transit was visible only inside a narrow corridor a few hundred meters wide. And it was brief. The space station crosses in the Sun in a split second! Maruska knew when and where to look thanks to the predictions of Thomas Fly, an expert forecaster of ISS transits.

Courtesy of spaceweather.com

[stargazer]

This is so cool that this guy was lucky enough to get this on film. I am sure alot of people will want to keep the pic on their puters. I only wish I was able to get the shuttle and space station together on film but I didnt have the video cam at the time but I will try later once the Shuttles are flying to capture it on fim.

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