Stunning early morning view of the International Space Station Full Moon transit

Youtube 4K Video Link: youtu.be/vdAOhrM3jMU

 

flickr video link: flic.kr/p/25HhayC

 

International Space Station crosses the Moon over Mermaid Beach on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

With all the recent weather lately I almost didn’t expect this to happen!

 

The clouds cleared enough though in the early hours and with the conditions being pretty good I took the opportunity to capture the ISS crossing in shadow as it tracked over the Gold Coast, silhouetted against a beautiful near Full Moon for 1 April 2018.

 

Image composite from 24 frames Canon 1DXII and Canon 800mm with 1.4XIII

 

International Space Station

1 April 2018 - 04h08m24.84s.

Crosses the near Full Moon (Waning Gibbous 99.6%)

Mermaid Beach, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Transit Duration: 1.51s, (in shadow of Earth)

Visible Path Width: 10.32 km

Diameter of ISS: Angular Size: 32.53"

Size=109.0m x 73.0m x 27.5m

Satellite at Azimuth=283.0° WNW Altitude=25.7°

Distance=849.43km Angular Velocity=21.0'/s

Ground speed=8.671 km/s (27,600 km/h)

Done