Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Moon Transits the Earth


The relative sizes are distorted by the distance of the station point  a million miles away, but it's quite a perspective.




Source: NASA/NOAA

This is a five-hour time lapse of the far side of the Moon, illuminated by the Sun, as it crosses between the DSCOVR spacecraft's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera and telescope, and the Earth - one million miles away.

(It) was taken between 3:50 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. EDT showing the moon moving over the Pacific Ocean near North America. The North Pole is in the upper left corner of the image. It is in the original orientation as taken by the spacecraft.  LINK