ISS / Shuttle Solar Transit

This video shows the International Space Station docked with the Space Shuttle while they pass between the sun and my viewing location in my back yard. I shot this with a Philips ToUcam web camera on a Meade ETX-90 telescope. The video is edited to show four passes in real time, two passes in slow motion and ends with a blown up freeze frame. Focus is soft as there were no sun spots visible to use as a focusing aid prior to the pass. I often use Calsky.com to help me predict solar or lunar transits of sattelites and space debris in order to view these objects in the telescope with great detail.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• ISS
• Shuttle
• telescope
• satelllite
• astronomy
• solar
• transit
• ETX90
• Webcam
• ToUcam
• Space
• Station
• Calsky.com

[JohnLenardWalson]

good to see others film satellite

[perltech]

Wow - how did you align the ETX to get this thing sync'd in the daytime?  Incredible video!

[FlatHorizon]

looks like a bug flying across your camera lens...

[PaintSlinger99]

impressive capture