On April 5th, John Stetson of Freeport, Maine, was watching the Moon in broad daylight when a bright light flitted across the Sea of Serenity. It was the International Space Station:
"The ISS passed in front of the Moon at 5:41 p.m.," says Stetson. "At the time, the Moon was 21 degrees above the eastern horizon while the sun was 21 degrees above the western horizon. This was a bright daylight transit." "A local bird of prey was transiting at the same time, eclipsing a hawk-shaped portion of Mare Imbrium, the Sea of Rains," he notes. Stetson's photo adds the space station to a short list of things you can see in the daylight sky: The Sun, Moon, Venus, clouds, birds, and now the ISS. |