First ISS solar transit 7/3/2022

rigel123 · Post by **rigel123** » Mon Jul 04, 2022 12:49 am

I'm sure I can do better but it was fun capturing this first, really fast transit (1.1 seconds) this morning at 8:28 AM EDT. It came across the limb right when Transit Finder predicted. I went full disk since I was pretty sure where it was supposed to cross but now I know how accurate the prediction can be so I might try zooming in a bit on the next one. As it is, here is an animation of the transit slowed down and a composite image. I tried combining a stacked image of the sun with the composite but the ISS just shows up better with the single frames layered together. It was really fun watching that thing zoom across!!

Composite Disk

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Animation

ISS Transit animation 7 3 2022 by Rigel123, on Flickr

Carbon60 · Post by **Carbon60** » Mon Jul 04, 2022 5:33 am

Nice capture, Warren. I’ve done this only once, but I remember the thrill when everything came together and I got some clear frames. It was a close call, though, with quite a few clouds around threatening to block the view.

Stu.

Post by **Montana** » Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:17 am

It really is such a fantastic sight, it makes you grin from ear to ear

since the loss of Calsky I haven't looked as I can't find a site which alerts me, such a sad loss.

Fabulous capture

Alexandra

torsinadoc · Post by **torsinadoc** » Mon Jul 04, 2022 10:05 am

Awesome. I still remember the excitement on my iss capture. I was surprised all the planning worked!

rigel123 · Post by **rigel123** » Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:07 am

Thanks folks, I think I actually did a fist pump when I actually saw it zip across the disk and I knew I was capturing it! Actually got 100 frames of it on the disk but would like to try with a closeup to actually get some detail on the station.

Post by **marktownley** » Mon Jul 04, 2022 6:47 pm

Congrats on the transit Warren!

arnedanielsen · Post by **arnedanielsen** » Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:55 pm

Congratulations, Warren! Good work!

Best regards,
Arne

rigel123 · Post by **rigel123** » Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:45 pm

Thanks Arne!

Carbon60 · Post by **Carbon60** » Tue Jul 05, 2022 4:54 am

Montana wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:17 am It really is such a fantastic sight, it makes you grin from ear to ear since the loss of Calsky I haven't looked as I can't find a site which alerts me, such a sad loss.

Fabulous capture

Alexandra

Hi Alexandra,
Have you tried this one…. https://transit-finder.com/ ? This is the one I used and it seemed to work okay, but I don’t think it can be set to alert you; not sure.

Stu.

Rusted · Post by **Rusted** » Tue Jul 05, 2022 5:44 am

Congratulations on your capture of the ISS.

This raises the interesting matter of scale and appearance:
The truly gigantic dimensions required to appear the same size.
If the ISS was actually close to the sun.
Rather than orbiting just a mere 400 kilometres above our heads.

ffellah · Post by **ffellah** » Tue Jul 05, 2022 10:39 am

Very well done Warren ! You inspired me to try one in the future.

Franco

rigel123 · Post by **rigel123** » Tue Jul 05, 2022 10:43 am

ffellah wrote: ↑Tue Jul 05, 2022 10:39 am Very well done Warren ! You inspired me to try one in the future.

Franco

You should definitely try it Franco, of course now that I have caught it once I’ll be looking for chances to improve to get better detail of the ISS!

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