Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured this magnificent image of the ISS transmitting the surface of the Sun in the blink of an eye.
Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured this magnificent image of the International Space Station transiting the surface of the Sun in the blink of an eye.
Claro captured the stupendous image from Figueira da Foz on the northern coast of Portugal on June 2. Employing a fast video camera capable of recording 109 images per second, he captured multiple images of the ISS as it hurtled through space at 4.5 miles per second at a distance of roughly 274 miles from Earth.The Sun’s chromosphere is visible in H-alpha emission making the ISS appear white because Claro uses an “inversion technique” to process the Sun’s chromosphere. A video shows the ISS in black before the chromosphere is enhanced.
“It’s interesting that it’s possible to recognize the distinct structures of the ISS in the photo,” Claro writes forIndeed, the spacecraft’s solar panels and modules can be made out as well as huge jets of gas emanating from the Sun’s outer atmosphere and a large sunspot, which is an active region on the surface of Earth’s nearest star.Claro had just 0.54 seconds of transit time in which the ISS was visible.
“While fairly large in the sky with an angular diameter of 62.58″, the ISS seems very small when compared with the massive size of the solar disc, which has an angular size of 31.6′. That makes the Sun appear some 30.3 times larger than the ISS at the moment of this photo.”
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