Space station's over the moon
With the Space Shuttle crew now happily on board the International Space Station (even though they can't use the toilet), a German amateur astronomer aimed his telescope towards the hurtling hunk of metal.
And it's lucky for us he did, because he managed to capture this amazing shot of the ISS crossing the face of the Moon (what astronomers call a transit).
Bernhard Christ had to be really quick on the draw because the transit lasted just a mere 0.4 seconds.
The picture is a composite of several images taken in a row.
How many stations can you spot? Four? Nope. There's five of them - you just have to look really, really close. Click on the image for a bigger version.
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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.
