Thanks to some great last minute work by Tom Fly (ISS alerts) and predictions from Arnold Barmettlers CalSky.com I was able to capture a few frames of ISS passing very close to Saturn tonight. Conditions were very poor.In fact I was totally clouded out. Had it not been for the fact that I had set up the telescope about an hour earlier , during a clear spell , its unlikely I would have found Saturn , even with GoTo. Using full gain and brightness settings on the camera , the ringed planet was just visible , on screen , through the murk. With just a few minutes to go , Tom predicted that I would be a couple of hundred metres south of centreline , and thats how it turned out. Interestingly , Calsky predicted that the station would be in shadow just before passing the planet. Tom calculated that the complex would be illuminated , just! Thankfully Tom was right. The negative format animation here http://mysite.freeserve.com/satcom_transits/isssatneg.gif about 850kb , shows Saturn , top left , with ISS passing just below. Regards, John. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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