Smarter Every Day just posted this... it was very cool. They went to the exact bets spot where they got to see the space station transit the sun... and it was awesome.
@NatCH , if you liked the first one, you might appreciate this version... it's on his second channel and it's just basically some raw footage. Really captures the excitement they had during the event.
I definitely want to catch the next two (I'll be just over 50 in 2048) and spend the next seven years practicing my solar photography skills. I just find it so incredibly impressive that the universe follows rules that we've learned and mastered, so that we can know when, where, and how long these things happen, down to the second.
Found this interesting story about after the eclipse: Lensrentals.com rents out expensive camera gear, and they made a blog post about the damage that happened to some of their gear due to photographing the eclipse without the proper solar lenses, etc. Pretty interesting stuff... https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2017/09/rental-camera-gear-destroyed-by-the-solar-eclipse-of-2017/
I wouldn't say that, I'd say humans have observed them long enough to predict where they will be on our time scale. We don't fully yet understand gravity and there are many significant things we either haven't observed yet or simply don't understand now. Things we've observed and don't know the exact mechanics of: gravity dark, dark matter Things we can track: movement of large objects