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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Sun _ What a transit of Earth and Moon across the Sun would look like

Posted by: avisolo Nov 8 2018, 02:35 PM

HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE DOWNLOAD (46MB):
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4853/30839147677_1e75b59a1d_o_d.png

Composite of SDO images of Venus and Mercury solar transits as approximate stand-ins for Earth and Moon:
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003900/a003941/frames/4096x4096_1x1_30p/SDOHMIcomposite/
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004400/a004461/frames/4096x4096_1x1_30p/

See:
Simultaneous HARPS and HARPS-N Observations of the Earth Transit of 2014 as Seen from Jupiter: Detection of an Inverse Rossiter-McLaughlin Effect
Molaro, P.; Monaco, L.; Barbieri, M.; Zaggia, S.; Lovis, C.
The Messenger, vol. 161, p. 20-23 , September 2015
https://www.eso.org/sci/publications/messenger/archive/no.161-sep15/messenger-no161-20-23.pdf

Posted by: avisolo Dec 5 2018, 11:12 PM

Video version of the hypothetical transit using SDO footage of Venus and Mercury solar transits as approximate stand-ins for Earth and Moon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aafWkE0PyIY