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Tiangong 1 and Shenzhou 10 transit the Sun

Tiangong 1 and Shenzhou 10 transit the Sun
Tiangong 1 and Shenzhou 10 transit the Sun China’s Shenzhou 10 spacecraft and Tiangong 1 space station transit the Sun on June 16, 2013. The image was taken from Southern France using a Takahashi TOA-150 refractor, a Baader Herschel solar prism and a Canon 6D camera shooting at 1/4000s, at ISO 100. Thierry Legault