Posted on 01/22/2016 3:36:34 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Explanation: From low Earth orbit to the outer Solar System, this remarkable video frame composite follows the International Space Station's transit of Saturn. On January 15, the well-timed capture from a site near Dulmen, Germany required telescope and camera to be positioned along the predicted transit centerline, a path only 40 meters wide. That put the camera about 1,140 kilometers away from the space station during the transit and 1,600,000,000 kilometers away from Saturn. A video rate of 42 frames per second follows the orbital outpost moving quickly from lower right to upper left. The transit itself lasted about 0.02 seconds, with one frame showing the station directly in front of the ringed gas giant. Of course, you could also try to capture the International Space Station as it transits Jupiter.
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[Credit and Copyright: Julian Wessel]
Cool.
Once you transmit Saturn where are you going to put it?
“Fleet Of TIE Fighters Observed Passing Saturn In Solar System ... Earth Doomed!”
Ya got to hand it to whoever set up that shot.
That was a good idea, probably knew he would be able to submit it to APoD. :’)
ISS will pass over much of the western US tomorrow morning, around 5:30 and 7:05 Central Time. You can get more details at iss.astroviewer.net. Great website, easy to follow.
Thx!
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