The ISS Transiting Jupiter
Taken by Rene Saade on January 15, 2022 @
Cozumel, Quintana Roo, Mexico
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Date Taken: 2022:01:17 09:39:54
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My dream became true!
The ISS is generally 30 arcseconds to 60 arcseconds. Same thing with Jupiter. If someone manages to do a picture of the ISS crossing the Sun or the Moon, well, congratulations! That is no small feat!
But, getting a picture of the ISS crossing a PLANET? Well... that's another level!!
To get an ISS solar or lunar transit, many people travel up to 100km (or more) from their homes!! You would expect that a planetary transit would be much more difficult and that you'd have to drive even more, but guess what? I was sooooo lucky that the next transit was just 4km from my home!!
So, armed with Ed Morana's Transit Finder (https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...), I took note of the location, and date, and time: January 15th, 2022, at 7:08:15PM, GMT-5.
I drove to the EXACT location of the centerline, I checked that with GPS (good thing that I had great signal and both the map and the GPS location appeared)!! But, the centerline was blocked by trees. So I moved my mount three meters away from the centerline, and checked that Jupiter would be visible from that location, and it was! The last thing to worry about was the weather. The weather prediction was that it would either be 40% cloudy (one prediction), or 5% cloudy (another prediction). Thankfully, it was the latter!! It was clear by the area of Jupiter!
Then, I set up my mount, my telescope, the camera, hooked it up to the computer, and made some test runs. Then I opened up an app that told me the EXACT time, and waited until 7:08:00 to start a 90 second video. I looked up to the sky and could see the ISS getting closer and closer... 10... 9... 8... 7... 6.... will I make it?? YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS!! I GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!! I GOT IT!!!
HUGE ADRENALINE RUSH!!
Here are the frames with the ISS going forward, then going backwards, then putting the frames in the same picture, and then a stack of both the Jupiter and ISS frames and a superposition.
Hope you enjoy it!
EXIF: 0.00035s (0.35ms) per frame, 90 sec vid, about 25,000 frames, of which the ISS only appeared in 150... ROI 640*480 pixels, ZWO ASI290MM, Gain 350, no filters, C90 Mak Telescope, CEM25P, mount, taken from Cozumel, Quintana Roo, México
Photographer's website:
https://www.facebook.com/astrofotorene
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