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ISS Transit
Taken by Houston Haynes on October 25, 2012 @ San Diego, CA

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Date Taken: 2012:10:25 15:06:02

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Randomly and unintentionaly recorded the the ISS transit the Solar disc today, October 25, 2012. What luck! Not the greatest qaulity. Recorded @ 15fps, the ISS transited in roughly 9 frames.

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I would not be wrong, but I dont see the International Space Station.
It seems to me more a dragonfly!

Posted by dcirioni 2012-10-26 02:31:13

Odd that the pattern just in front of and above the ISS in the sun resembles an upside down L21. I would hope this is something the photographer could have superimposed. The designation L21 is way too close to December 21. Although, a collegue pointed out that such an observation is like seeing Jesus in a piece of toast. Let us hope the Dec 21 doom sayers dont see this. If so they will be selling Dec 21 emergency kits by tomorrow.

Posted by jkilgore 2012-10-26 15:56:25

I dont think San Diego is a habitat for dragonflies. Too dry, but Im not an expert. Nothing in this photo is superinmposed, the only alteration was adding color, because the original avi file is monochromatic. I just recently posted photos of it entire passing. Some say it looks like a Russian sattelite, Lotus S-1...? But given its angular diamter and certain assumptions of size and height of orbit, this is closest to the ISS, unless there is another massively large satteleite out there?

Posted by thenews24 2012-10-26 16:06:24

The ISS is in this pic here http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/iss_atlantis_2010.jpg

Whatever the structure is in this pic by Houston Haynes is not the ISS, unless the ISS has been restructured in space. The ISS has more panels. It seems that this is a different station???

Definately not the ISS, but with the X panel design it looks almost like the MIR.

Posted by jkilgore 2012-10-26 17:37:07

It should be a simple matter to find the ISSs position at that time and date using CalSky or a similar atlas/ephemeris program, shouldnt it? This would resolve any debate about the objects identity.

Posted by MidnightMan 2012-10-26 19:59:57

34 thumbs up

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