ISS Saturn transit tonight

[george7378]

Calsky says that the ISS will cross the disk of Saturn tonight, at 22:44:51 from my location - it looks like it could be clear too. Anyone else got this?

[Ponoobersie]

Not sure....but ill sure be out there looking for it so thanks

[Ponoobersie]

Im on the south coast though..?

[Ponoobersie]

Just looked at this http://www.isstracker.com/ and its on its way over at some point according to the map happy days!

[george7378]

It's worth going to look for it - it should happen around 22:44. Even if it doesn't cross Saturn, it will probably come pretty close for you!

[Viv]

that will be nice !

It's above from down here ..........

[Steve Ward]

Just checked it out in Stellarium and it will be a very narrow ground track .

ISS crosses Sun in about 1 second when transiting across centre so chances of catching it are pretty remote I'd say.

Be a great shot though if you can make it .

[Steve Ward]

http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jan-2004/0149.html

http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jan-2004/0154.html

[george7378]

The ISS will be illuminated at mag. -2 so it should easily be visible!

[mdstuart]

How do you pu the ISS in Stellarium?

[mdstuart]

Sorry..got it now...ISS goes above Saturn

[george7378]

Well, all I saw was cloud...

[JamesF]

I was just in time to catch it. Watched it all the way across the sky until it dropped into shadow about twenty degrees above the south-eastern horizon

James

[knobby]

Yaay just seen it ... first timer! Even the wide was impressed.

Back out tomorrow at 23:30 ish for another dose!

[David Smith]

I managed to follow it across most of the sky in binoculars. Came within one binocular field of Mars but was quite a bit higher up than Saturn from here. Eventually lost it in the trees on my southern horizon.

[Steve Ward]

Just caught him passing Saturn ,

And here's what Stellarium said i'd get ,

Close enough for me .......

[Photosbykev]

It was a nice low horizon to horizon pass over Anglesey tonight. I did take a full set of images but being so close to sunset the exposures are pretty short to avoid burning out the sky. Tomorrows pass being an hour later should be better

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[knobby]

How you taking pics? Webcam?

Might have a go tomorrow. How do you focus? Its so bleedin quick!

[Steve Ward]

Gonna be a lot lower tomorrow , but if you're looking over the sea you should be OK.

[Steve Ward]

How you taking pics? Webcam?

Might have a go tomorrow. How do you focus? Its so bleedin quick!

1000D and 300mm lens on EQ3-2 mount for this one , took about 20 seconds to cross frame , camera set to 30s ,f5.6 and ISO100.

Focus on bright star and trigger shutter with 2s delay just before enters fov.

[knobby]

Cheers Steve

Going webcamming it and registax

Should be a laugh

[Photosbykev]

I've just added an image of the pass in my astro album. 63 x 2 second images at f8 ISO 320

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[tingting44]

i still have to see this but i dont think my SW130p AZGOTO tracks/slews fast enough to be able to see this, also i can not find it in stellarium either normally when i click on satelittes on stellarium i get a lot of ones pop up, i click on one of them, scope slews, but by the time it slews the satellite is all ready gone lol any info to help me out would be great, thanks guys

[teleaddict]

I've tried a couple of times to capture the ISS with my 76mm newt & xbox cam, but all I've managed is a blurry streak of light :-(