Space Station Lunar Transit

[ via SoCal Skylights ] The International Space Station might be a welfare program for aerospace, sapping away funds for planetary exploration, but this is cool:

Tom Laskowski, of South Bend, set up his 6 inch reflector telescope with a prosumer-quality Canon C4000Z digital camera. He had figured out that the April 11 overflight path of the ISS would take it across the face of the Moon.

Laskowski captured a photo of the Space Station transiting the face of the Moon.

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