[Chaos-l] ISS Lunar transit

[Michael Hrivnak]

It would be fun to try catching some photos of this.  I've had good
success in the past photographing the moon with a DSLR connected to a
budget 4" refractor.

http://hrivnak.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=1879

Who has the best spot we could use?  I have access to a spot right on
Crabtree Lake, which is a little over a mile from the center of the
path.  Not sure how good that would be.  The details say the path is
15.2km wide, but presumably the closer you are to the center, the
closer the ISS will be to the center of the moon.  Walter, could we
use your place?

Adding to the challenge, it looks like the moon will only be 21% lit,
and 28 degrees above the horizon at 5:25am.

Michael

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:18 PM, walter fowler <walterfowler at gmail.com> wrote:
> Something was missing in reporting this correction.  I looked at the link
> because the event apparently occurs right over my house but the maps are
> labelled "Passes for Sat. 25544" whatever that means.  Could you give me the
> date one more time?  The other confusing thing is following the path on the
> Google map it looks like it's over my house at 12h 25min 41.65sec (is this
> UT?) but it's a mile northeast two tenths of a sec before this and a mile
> southwest two tenths of a sec after.  Is it really moving that fast?  Please
> clarify since I'm "right on the money."  Thanks.  Walter Fowler
>
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Tony Rice <rtphokie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for catching that.  I'd forgotten that I'd set the search to 2
>> weeks.  The visibile transit is indeed Dec 1.
>>
>>
>> http://www.calsky.com/?Transitline=&obs=54404012470422&tdt=2455532.22692995&sat=25544&interval=0.00011574&step=0.00000231&mainbody=10
>>
>> -Tony
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