SDO
15th October 2020, 13:30
Just two weeks ago the Full Moon and Mars had a bright conjunction in the night sky. Tomorrow the New Moon will glide between SDO and the Sun for a 47 minute lunar transit. Here's the SDO FOT movie of the transit.
The transit starts at 1906 UTC (3:06 pm ET) and ends at 1953 UTC (3:53 pm ET), so it's at a perfect time for watching in the US. The Moon will cover at most about 44% of the solar disk. More important to SDO, it will cover two of the fine-guidance sensors (the red squares in the movie). This means our view of the Sun may jitter a bit during the transit, but SDO will recover soon after the Moon moves off the disk. </br>Enjoy the transit, and keep watching the planets Mars, Venus, and Jupiter as they move across the evening sky.
More... (http://sdoisgo.blogspot.com/2020/10/sdo-lunar-transit-october-16-2020.html)
The transit starts at 1906 UTC (3:06 pm ET) and ends at 1953 UTC (3:53 pm ET), so it's at a perfect time for watching in the US. The Moon will cover at most about 44% of the solar disk. More important to SDO, it will cover two of the fine-guidance sensors (the red squares in the movie). This means our view of the Sun may jitter a bit during the transit, but SDO will recover soon after the Moon moves off the disk. </br>Enjoy the transit, and keep watching the planets Mars, Venus, and Jupiter as they move across the evening sky.
More... (http://sdoisgo.blogspot.com/2020/10/sdo-lunar-transit-october-16-2020.html)