The clouds cleared giving me a chance to use my PST to watch today's transit. It happened right on time with the station being clearly defined as it made the crossing in just under 3 seconds. Transits I've seen in the past were much quicker but today's happened when the station was nearly 1,400 km distant and so crossed at a more leisurely pace. Tomorrow's transit is predicted to take 1.69s being that it will be closer at just under 1,000 km meaning it will also appear larger, 28.2" during tomorrow's transit vs 19.8" today. Nice show! BTW, lots of small scale action around the limb of the Sun. patrick On 16 Apr 2013, at 16:03, Patrick Wiggins wrote:
The latest predictions from CalSky still have ISS transiting the Sun from my plane near SPOC this evening when it's supposed to be cloudy.
However they also continue to predict another transit tomorrow (Wednesday) when the weather may actually cooperate.
But on that one the centerline of the transit's ground track will pass eastbound past my place and right over the U of U campus at 18h15m11.20s which is just a short while before the start of the SLAS meeting:
http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/transit.jpg
The Clear Sky Clock for SPOC continues to look much better than the one for SLC so I may try to catch it here at home and then rush in for the meeting. But those in SLC who will be going to the SLAS meeting may want to head to the U a little early if the weather looks promising and see if they can spot the transit from there.
Clear skies,
patrick