Southern Cross & ISS

[yeti monster]

ISS made a brilliant return to my viewing sky this evening, visible from below 10 degrees, passing over Crux, through Scorpius and on twards the East where it finally dropped into shadow at about 15 degrees. Especially for all you ex-pat Cobbers & sheilas, I give you ISS over the Southern Cross:

G'day...

[Telrad]

What a great image Yeti! Thanks for posting. You've caught the ISS path well, and I like the cloud contrast too. I especially like the penultimate and last images where it passes over the southern cross.. wonderful!

[inksmithy]

Fantastic Yeti!

I can only assume you are on board some sort of ship by the wobble of the ISS path, but that only adds to the image.

Fantastic set of images, you have made me homesick again!

Alan

[yeti monster]

I'm on a drilling rig, which accounts for some of the wobble, the rest is down to me having forgotten to bring my remote shutter release and not having time to nip in for it.

[inksmithy]

Aha, I see!

Tough job that, being stuck out there, but it seems it has some compensations - dark skies being one of them every now and then I guess.

Its great to see all these fuzzies and constellations - the more I look at these images, the more I recognise and remember.

Thanks again!

Alan

[yeti monster]

It can be tough, be thankfully, on this rig, things are VERY laid back. Today should be busy for me, but it's looking more like it'll be later on, due to the laid backness....

Things, workwise at least, are looking good for the lunar eclipse on Thursday morning. I just have to appease the Ocean Dragon, in hope of ideal conditions!

[stolenfeather]

I want to see the ISS let alone capture it! Brilliant Yeti! Simply brilliant!

Isabelle

[yeti monster]

^^^ISS passes over just about every location at some point, of that I'm sure. Have you checked Heavens Above?

[stolenfeather]

I have checked Yeti but I find that the ISS is a slippery little menace! One day,.. I will capture it in my sight!

Isabelle

[yeti monster]

Patience Isabelle, patience! Keep one eye on HA and the other to the EP.

[stolenfeather]

I don't mind being patient. It will just make it "that much better" when the moment comes. There have been many "dances of joy" around my telescope (enough that my neighbours question my sanity) my experience with the ISS will be another,...

Isabelle

[yeti monster]

It's a good idea to have a pair of light binoculars handy (10x50s or 10x42s are best) for when you do expect to see it, as finding and tracking with a scope is a skill best learned in a relaxed mood!

Watching ISS zoom past stars, or better still, Saturn or Jupiter, is a wonderful and unforgettable sight.

[stolenfeather]

I'm sure it is!

Isabelle

[yeti monster]

Some of my experiences:

http://stargazerslounge.com/observing-binoculars/97021-iss-saturn.html

http://stargazerslounge.com/imaging-sketches-unconventional/97071-iss-saturn-e-sketch.html

[Telrad]

Great pics Yeti!

Isabelle try this - the apparent position of ISS:

LIVE REAL TIME SATELLITE TRACKING AND PREDICTIONS: ISS (ZARYA)

[stolenfeather]

Thanks Telrad! I do have a tracking site but it's the actually "getting to see it" that's always the problem. It came out on Stellarium once and I jumped outside to be welcomed with CLOUDS!

Isabelle

[Scosmico]

that is cool!