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Message Subject Huge sphere above Antarctica captured on NASA ISS Live feed
Poster Handle Dr. Astro
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P.S. I never said I measured it, ASstro. Just drawing out your obvious B.S.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72192903

Then you are in no position to state that it's just a few "arcseconds" across. You made a statement of fact without actually determining that fact. You were the one spewing BS, not me. That's how small the moon looks in the extremely widefield HDEV cameras. The horizon proves me right and you wrong. Here is the original footage from NASA, not the potato camera of the moron's computer monitor:
[link to www.ustream.tv]
The moon rises at about 8:40 in the video. It's actually visible on a number of orbits that day, for example:
[link to www.ustream.tv]
It rises at 12:50 and again at 1:45:30 there. Now, the potato camera moron shows an ISS tracker along with the footage showing that ISS is near the tip of South Africa when the object is spotted. Indeed that's precisely when the moon should have risen given the orbit of ISS and the moon's position that day. I loaded the orbital elements of ISS from that day into Orbiter Spaceflight Simulator and ran it to see where ISS would be when the moon rose at that time:
[link to h.dropcanvas.com]
Sure enough, that's where ISS should be as the moon is rising. And sure enough it matches the appearance of the moon in the original HDEV footage from ISS as well as the curvature of the earth.
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