Shuttle transits the Sun

[Snowreap]

is that why I got that email? an email with no SMTP headers, by the way, which makes its authenticity impossible to verify.

in any event, the biggest indicator of that picture's authenticity is that it is of a much higher quality than the alleged NASA photograph.

so I would have to say that, yes, the image is probably authentic. if somebody were trying to fake images to make NASA look good, they wouldn't do so by having private hobbyists publish images far superior to NASA's own images.

and nobody has to fake images to make NASA look bad, ergo...

-ken