ISS Transit
Taken by Noel Keating on January 3, 2021 @
Donegal , Ireland
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Date Taken: 2021:01:03 17:46:22
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>>> ISS Lunar Transit <<<
The International Space Station transits across the moon last night from Donegal town. I knew about this transit a few days ago but really wasn't sure if I wanted to put myself through the hassle of packing up my telescope and mount in the car only to set it up again in the early hours of the morning. But with clear skies in the evening and night I had to make a decision to drive into town at 4am in the morning in the freezing cold or wait until there was another transit closer to home and at a more sensible time.
Clear skies don't come to often in Ireland so away I went. The transit occurred at the exact time giving by the website to the second at 4:46:45am and the angular size if the ISS was 50.33".
Time it took ISS to cross the moon was only 0.69 of a second.
This is a stack from the video clip I filmed with the telescope, I also was trying to photograph it with another camera but my hands were froze and I just miss it by a millisecond.
Captured > 3rd Jan 2021 @ 4:46am
Location > Donegal Town, Ireland.
Photographer's website:
https://www.facebook.com/Noelkeatingphotography
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