Re: [Utah-astronomy] Daylight ISS lunar transit
Hi Jared, The transits are only visible along a VERY narrow corridor. In this case the corridor was only 9 km wide. Here is the prediction CalSky sent me for the transit (terribly long URL): http://www.calsky.com/?Transitline=&showhome=&obs=79303019710733&tdt=2455694... patrick On 14 May 2011, at 02:49, Patrick Wiggins wrote:
Hi Jared,
Click on the "centerline" link (located to the lower right of the ISS icon) and you'll see the path the transit line took.
Cheers,
patrick
I see. Thanks. I'm in Cache Valley and I think it was just outside the search range for my alerts. That CalSky can be a bit difficult to figure out. One of my astronomy bucket list items is to photograph ISS transiting the sun and moon. If there are upcoming transits, please post them ahead of time. Jared On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
Hi Jared,
The transits are only visible along a VERY narrow corridor. In this case the corridor was only 9 km wide.
Here is the prediction CalSky sent me for the transit (terribly long URL):
http://www.calsky.com/?Transitline=&showhome=&obs=79303019710733&tdt=2455694...
patrick
On 14 May 2011, at 02:49, Patrick Wiggins wrote:
Hi Jared,
Click on the "centerline" link (located to the lower right of the ISS icon) and you'll see the path the transit line took.
Cheers,
patrick
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On 14 May 2011, at 10:11, Jared Smith wrote:
If there are upcoming transits, please post them ahead of time.
Here is the next one. But note that the predictions I receive from CalSky are very site specific. In my case I ask CalSky to only send me predictions for transits passing over my home observatory. So if the observer is located more than a few kilometers off the predictions' centerline they will not see a transit. http://www.calsky.com/?Transitline=&showhome=&obs=79303019710733&tdt=2455718... patrick
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