Nice shot Jared, Looks like there's another chance coming up this coming Sunday afternoon. This from CalSky, calculated for SPOC: Crosses the disk of Sun at 14h30m33.31s. Separation=0.069° Position Angle=31.2°, Position angle vertex=11.9°. Transit duration=0.62s Angular diameter=54.9" size=109.0m x 73.0m x 27.5m Satellite at Azimuth=205.7° SSW Altitude= 48.3° Distance=503.7 km In a clock-face concept, the satellite will seem to move toward 8:36 Angular Velocity=49.8'/s Closest point: Longitude=112°16'51"W Latitude=+40°39'15" (WGS84) Distance=1.91 km Azimuth= 41.6° NE Path direction=131.7° SE ground speed=7.440 km/s width=7.7 km max. duration=0.6 s Orbit source: NASA predicted orbit And here's a very long URL to additional data: http://www.calsky.com/?Transitline=&showhome=&obs=79303019710733&tdt=2455823... patrick On 11 Sep 2011, at 17:39, Jared Smith wrote:
I was able to capture an ISS solar transit along with some nice sunspots this morning. The clouds parted just moments before the transit time, which resulted in the image being a bit over-exposed. Still, it's nice to scratch another item off my astrophotography bucket list.
http://smithplanet.com/astro/solarsystem/solar/isstransit/ISSTransit.jpg
Full disc: http://smithplanet.com/astro/solarsystem/solar/isstransit/ISSTransitFull.jpg
Jared