Great shot of the Patrick2 SN -- would hate to be anywhere near that star. Anyone know what the estimated kill radius is for a SN? What are the odds we'll find ourselves in one of those someday?/R From: Wiggins Patrick <paw@digis.net> To: Astronomy Utah <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, June 22, 2015 11:45 PM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] ISS to cross Sun / New SN image CalSky is predicting ISS will transit the Sun Wednesday afternoon. Here are the data for SPOC. Should be good to within a couple of seconds for northern SLC. Crosses the disk of Sun. Transit duration=0.51s Angular diameter=65.6" size=109.0m x 73.0m x 27.5m Satellite at Azimuth=158.9° SSE Altitude= 71.8° Distance=421.2 km In a clock-face concept, the satellite will seem to move toward 9:33 Angular Velocity=60.0'/s For those who have not seen an ISS transit before note the "Transit duration=0.51s" indicating ISS will only take about half a second to cross the Sun. I've posted CalSky's map of the centerline. One must be within a couple of kilometers of the centerline to see any part of the transit. Best to be right on the centerline. http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/iss.jpg +++++ In other news, here's an image I got of "my" supernova a few minutes ago. The SN is the tiny dot just above the core of the galaxy. http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/SN_.NGC_3888.2015JUN23.JPG patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".