It pays to be in the right place at the right time.
ISS
ISS Visits Old Friends
The image says it all.
ISS Pass
Just a little something in the night sky. My iPad using NightCap imaged for 269 seconds. Shutter speed was 1 second. The ISS is the bright line. It traveled from right to left. Two jet airliners also passed over but from lower left toward upper right.
ISS Solar Transit | 11 Jun 2024
This afternoon soon after 3:52 PM local time, the ISS crossed the face of the Sun. The center line was a few blocks from my house. All I needed to do was step out onto the front sidewalk to record the event. The sky was clear giving a good view of the Sun through the modified eclipse glasses used to protect my camera. Here is the real time video of the transit. It lasted less than a second.
The ISS travels 5 miles/sec. I used iMovie to slow down the video to 10% of original speed.
Here is a screen grab near the end of the transit. The large solar arrays on the sides of the station are visible.
ISS Solar Transit | 19 Feb 2024
Two weeks ago I posted about a solar transit by the ISS. It was difficult to see on the screen. It was not quite in focus. Today, I tried again with better results. The solar filter on the camera was made in 2016 from a pair of eclipse glasses, an orange juice container, and duct tape.
I took more care this time to get the focus and exposure set properly. This video is slowed down a great deal from real time with iMovie. The transit took about 1 second in real time. The station moved from 1 o’clock to the 8 o’clock position.
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