Re: [Utah-astronomy] ISS to cross Moon Tuesday morning
CalSky is showing the main Moon crossing track running northwest to southeast (at 3:51am) with a 4.75km wide visibility path going across Herriman and running parallel to I-15 at Lehi. Club members in Riverton, Bluffdale, Herriman, Lehi and Saratoga Springs might also be able to image this lunar crossing of the ISS. Calsky link to the ground track is appended. Don't know if it will work. Just to be clear, the ISS overflight is not visible. The station will not be reflecting enough light. The outline of the ISS against the disk of the Moon will be visible. The actual transit of the Moon may not be acquirable visually. The duration of the event is 0.6 seconds. Run a webcam at the appointed time and then see if you pick up any images with the ISS in it. - Kurt http://www.calsky.com/?Transitline=&obs=87742556941612&tdt=2454375.91130905&... _______________________________________________ Sent via CSolutions - http://www.csolutions.net
On 01 Oct 2007, at 19:23, Kurt Fisher wrote:
The actual transit of the Moon may not be acquirable visually. The duration of the event is 0.6 seconds.
Run a webcam at the appointed time and then see if you pick up any images with the ISS in it.
FWIW, during my most recent ISS transit experience Bruce Grim successfully spotted ISS visually with an 80 mm refractor. patrick
I'm not going to be able to make it tonight, after all. If anyone gets a nice view of the ISS aganst the moon, could you pls send me a copy? Contact me at my office email, bau@desnews.com, as I check it more frequently than this address. I would like to see if the resolution is high enough to print in the paper, if it's OK with the photographer. If so I probably could sell the editors on a story. Thank you, Joe Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote: On 01 Oct 2007, at 19:23, Kurt Fisher wrote:
The actual transit of the Moon may not be acquirable visually. The duration of the event is 0.6 seconds.
Run a webcam at the appointed time and then see if you pick up any images with the ISS in it.
FWIW, during my most recent ISS transit experience Bruce Grim successfully spotted ISS visually with an 80 mm refractor. patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://gallery.utahastronomy.com Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com --------------------------------- Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games.
I'm not going to be able to make it tonight, after all. If anyone gets a nice view of the ISS aganst the moon, could you pls send me a copy? Contact me at my office email, bau@desnews.com, as I check it more frequently than this address. I would like to see if the resolution is high enough to print in the paper, if it's OK with the photographer. If so I probably could sell the editors on a story. Thank you, Joe Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote: On 01 Oct 2007, at 19:23, Kurt Fisher wrote:
The actual transit of the Moon may not be acquirable visually. The duration of the event is 0.6 seconds.
Run a webcam at the appointed time and then see if you pick up any images with the ISS in it.
FWIW, during my most recent ISS transit experience Bruce Grim successfully spotted ISS visually with an 80 mm refractor. patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://gallery.utahastronomy.com Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com --------------------------------- Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids.
Having thought the path was only 1 km wide I had originally planned to drive to the center line but Kurt's note below indicating a much wider path convinced me I could stay home. Set up my C-5 in the driveway, 800 meters from the centerline, and waited. Decided against video. Visual only. Right on time, *ZIP* and it was gone. I forgot that not being on the centerline would have ISS crossing a much smaller portion of the Moon so rather than the "leisurely" .6 second transit I was expecting it was much shorter. Good thing I did not blink. patrick On 01 Oct 2007, at 19:23, Kurt Fisher wrote:
CalSky is showing the main Moon crossing track running northwest to southeast (at 3:51am) with a 4.75km wide visibility path going across Herriman and running parallel to I-15 at Lehi.
Club members in Riverton, Bluffdale, Herriman, Lehi and Saratoga Springs might also be able to image this lunar crossing of the ISS.
Calsky link to the ground track is appended. Don't know if it will work.
Just to be clear, the ISS overflight is not visible. The station will not be reflecting enough light. The outline of the ISS against the disk of the Moon will be visible. The actual transit of the Moon may not be acquirable visually. The duration of the event is 0.6 seconds.
Run a webcam at the appointed time and then see if you pick up any images with the ISS in it.
- Kurt
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