Wednesday, 5 January 2011

Amazing Partial Eclipse Image - But That's No Sun Spot!



Astrophotographer Thierry Legault traveled from his native France to the Sultanate of Oman to take pictures of the eclipse - take a closer look though.. that's no sun spot - IT'S A TIE FIGHTER!! Actually, its the International Space Station, hadn't noticed the similarity between the two until about 30seconds ago.

Full image on Discover here

By the way, its *obviously* the International Space Station - if you are on twitter, you can get updates of when the ISS will pass over head to your exact location - no really - follow it here

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