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01-15-2016, 08:47 AM - 2 Likes   #1
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Shooting the International Space Station against the Moon

Here is a website showing the International Space Station (ISS) against the Moon...
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O'Donnell received an alert for the precise to-the-second timing of the space station's flyover online. He'd been waiting for a year for such an opportunity, O'Donnell wrote on his website.

"If you think that it might be a case of sitting there with your camera and a clock, with one hand on the shutter release, you’d be absolutely correct!" O'Donnell wrote. "The ISS only passed over the moon for 0.33 seconds as it shoots by quite quickly. Knowing the second it would pass, I fired a 'burst' mode of exposures, then crossed my fingers and hoped it would show up in review — and it did!
... and here is the website/calculator that takes all the work and waiting out of the project. Either enter your location (lat, long and elevation), or select it from the map. Put in a radius in Km, and a 30 day time frame. It will then give you the best location for viewing along with the date and time of the transit.



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Nicely done!
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Looks like a tie fighter

"That's no moon..."
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I put in a 20 km radius from my home...
And it plucked me on top of a mountain.

I'm not dragging my telescope with K-50 attached up there....

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QuoteOriginally posted by bertwert Quote
I put in a 20 km radius from my home...
And it plucked me on top of a mountain.

I'm not dragging my telescope with K-50 attached up there....
It puts me right in the middle of what would probably be a lake effect snow band. And I don't have a 9.25" telescope to get a shot like that either...
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And I don't have a 9.25" telescope to get a shot like that either...
Mines only 9 cm (3.54 inches). 800mm f/8.8
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Similar photos here Satellites - Thierry Legault. Scroll down for the ISS and space shuttles

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