By Bette Lutes-Konecny | 2024-09-10
ISS Expedition 71 - Lunar Transit
On 09/10/2024 09:09 pm by JOSE PALMA| Setubal , Portugal
The target was to capture the transit of the ISS in front of the Moon. I used the site
https://transit-finder.com to get the location and timing of the transit and then moved my gear to the center of the visibility path.
Do the fact the ISS is 1136 km from shooting location the details of ISS are minimum.
Technical details:
- Distance to Earth - 1136.58 km
- Azimuth - 209.8 º
- Altitude - 16.9 º
- ISS angular size - 24.31"
- Transit duration - 2.24 seg.
- ISS Velocity - 6.32 km/s ( 22.752 km/h )
- Visibility path width - 12.46 km
- Moon Illumination - 45.6 %
- Sun - Altitude (-15.8 º)
Camera Sony A7III
Lens Sony 200-600
The acquisition was done from a 4k movie shot during the ISS transit. The relevant 30 frames were extracted from the movie and blend and stacked with Photoshop