Movie of Feb 25th Moon transit from 'Stereo' satellite

This one fair turns the head ...

http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/..._transit.shtml

I don't quite have my head around exactly where the STEREO satellites
are positioned ...

Mark

On Mar 4, 6:38 pm, Mark Annand
wrote:
This one fair turns the head ...

http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/...w/preview_tran...

I don't quite have my head around exactly where the STEREO satellites
are positioned ...

Mark

"Solar Eclipse, STEREO Style - On Feb. 25, 2007 there was a transit of
the Moon across the face of the Sun - but it could not be seen from
Earth. "

A planet on a faster inner orbital circuit overtakes the slower moving
Earth with the central Star as a backdrop -

http://www.vt-2004.org/mt-2003/mt-20...999-normal.jpg

That picture of Mercury about align with the Earth and the central Sun
clearly shows how orbital paths does not follow a line perpendicular
to the maximum solar diameter.

Being a celestial sphere astrophotographer means that transits are
nothing other than objects passing before the Sun and the Earth or
imaging sats,the information contained in the heliocentric perspective
is lost and diluted to the point of triviality.Even when images ,such
as the one above of Mercury ,should provide an exciting way to develop
new ways to approach the motions of the Earth and consequences of
these motions,this era is firmly rooted in retaining the diluted
version of 'transits'.

Astronomy is in tatters with no real disciplined authority to pull it
out of the celestial sphere scaffolding which was introduced in the
17th century and is useless for explaining contemporary images.

Do you all wish a fool's pardon or are you all astrophotographers ?.