International Space Station Solar Transit 14:20 BST 15/06/21
This ISS solar transit was visible from our garden in Oxfordshire at 14:20:01 BST 15th June 2021.
I captured it from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics refractor fitted with a Thousand Oaks glass solar filter. The camera I used was an ASI120MC. The video was captured using SharpCap, then I processed the video using PIPP, extracted frames were processed in Lightroom, stacked in StarStaX then final tweaks in Photoshop CS2.
Today's transit was much easier to capture than yesterday's daytime Moon transit was, but the transit chord was not where the prediction showed, so it just shows that even with the best planning, it's possible than orbital changes to the ISS's orbit can change enough that you could miss the transit entirely. I'm glad I decided to do this without any Barlow lenses in place because if I hadn't had such a large amount of the solar disc in view, I would have missed this! The sunspot you can see on the upper left side is AR12833.
If you want to look for transits from your location, you can use the transit finder website: www.transit-finder.com
PLEASE NEVER ATTEMPT TO OBSREVE OR PHOTOGRAPH A SOLAR TRANSIT WITH A PROPER SOLAR FILTER IN PLACE - IT COULD RESULT IN PERMANENT EYE DAMAGE
If you want to see my VLOG as I captured this transit, you can find it on my You Tube channel here: youtu.be/oLMfIiQADKc
International Space Station Solar Transit 14:20 BST 15/06/21
This ISS solar transit was visible from our garden in Oxfordshire at 14:20:01 BST 15th June 2021.
I captured it from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics refractor fitted with a Thousand Oaks glass solar filter. The camera I used was an ASI120MC. The video was captured using SharpCap, then I processed the video using PIPP, extracted frames were processed in Lightroom, stacked in StarStaX then final tweaks in Photoshop CS2.
Today's transit was much easier to capture than yesterday's daytime Moon transit was, but the transit chord was not where the prediction showed, so it just shows that even with the best planning, it's possible than orbital changes to the ISS's orbit can change enough that you could miss the transit entirely. I'm glad I decided to do this without any Barlow lenses in place because if I hadn't had such a large amount of the solar disc in view, I would have missed this! The sunspot you can see on the upper left side is AR12833.
If you want to look for transits from your location, you can use the transit finder website: www.transit-finder.com
PLEASE NEVER ATTEMPT TO OBSREVE OR PHOTOGRAPH A SOLAR TRANSIT WITH A PROPER SOLAR FILTER IN PLACE - IT COULD RESULT IN PERMANENT EYE DAMAGE
If you want to see my VLOG as I captured this transit, you can find it on my You Tube channel here: youtu.be/oLMfIiQADKc