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                              2022 September 3

                            Sun and Moon and ISS
   Image Credit & Copyright: Wang Letian (Eyes at Night), Jin Ma (Beijing
                                Planetarium)

   Explanation: On August 25 Sun and Moon could both be seen in planet
   Earth's daytime skies. And so could the International Space Station.
   The ISS crossed the disk of the waning crescent Moon as seen from
   Shunyi district, Beijing, China at about 11:02 am local time. Some 40
   kilometers to the southwest, in Fengtai district, the ISS was seen to
   cross the Sun's disk too. The solar transit was observed only 29
   seconds later. Both transits are compared in these panels, composed of
   processed and stacked video frames from the two locations. The
   coordinated captures were made with different equipment, but adjusted
   to show the Sun and Moon at the same scale. The ISS was at a calculated
   range of 435 kilometers for the lunar transit and 491 kilometers when
   passing in front of the Sun.

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