There's two favourable evening passes of the ISS coming up on the 12th and 13th of July.
The 12th will be a good pass for observers in Tassie at about 17:57 AEST moving from SW to NE.
The 13th will be a good pass for observers in Tassie, Melbourne and Sydney at the northern end. This pass will start about 18:20 AEST and again will run from SW to NE.
On the 14th will be a favourable pass for Adelaide, from SW to NE at about 18:45 AEST or 18:15 ACST.
The 15th will see a favourable pass for most of the SE coast of Australia: Tassie, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisvegas. It may be a little early with the sky still quite light in some places though. The pass is from the SW to NE at about 17:30 AEST.
July 16 will see another favourable evening ISS pass, this time for central south Queensland and the Queensland coast from Brisbane to say Mackay I guess.
Traveling from SW to NE the pass will start just before 18:00 AEST.
I was setting up my scope early this evening when I saw what I thought was the ISS overhead. I went in and checked on Heavens Above web site to confirm that it was.
What a great start to the evenings viewing. It tracked almost right overhead town at mag -2.3 around 6:20 local NZ time. Great stuff.
Just watched tonight pass. Lots of high cloud here, and the moonlight is diffusing through it to light up everything like a full moon. Transparency was pretty poor, obviously, I could see Jupiter in the east, the moon, the pointers, Acrux and Becrux and sometimes just see Gacrux. Given the clouds I didn't bother to set up a camera.
I picked up the ISS at about 20° above the horizon. It passed a little more than the length of Crux below Acrux, within a degree of Alpha Centauri and about 6 degrees under the moon before entering eclipse (or perhaps it was just obscured by clouds, I'm not sure).
Just watched tonight pass. Lots of high cloud here, and the moonlight is diffusing through it to light up everything like a full moon. Transparency was pretty poor, obviously, I could see Jupiter in the east, the moon, the pointers, Acrux and Becrux and sometimes just see Gacrux. Given the clouds I didn't bother to set up a camera.
I picked up the ISS at about 20° above the horizon. It passed a little more than the length of Crux below Acrux, within a degree of Alpha Centauri and about 6 degrees under the moon before entering eclipse (or perhaps it was just obscured by clouds, I'm not sure).
Always good to watch!
Al.
Lucky you. At least you saw it.
I missed this passing due to the usual cloud cover. I was hoping to get some images of the ISS but no luck. I will have to try again on Tuesday.
A mate down here worked out that from a narrow band in southern Wollongong the ISS would pass in front of the moon. What a great photo opportunity! So I had the scope in the car - check, battery charged - check, DSLR primed and ready to go - check, adapter - check, cable release - check, cloud - check, thicker cloud - check, can't even see the moon - check. Bugger, bugger, bugger - check, check, check.
How long, I wonder, before I get another opportunity?
A mate down here worked out that from a narrow band in southern Wollongong the ISS would pass in front of the moon. What a great photo opportunity! So I had the scope in the car - check, battery charged - check, DSLR primed and ready to go - check, adapter - check, cable release - check, cloud - check, thicker cloud - check, can't even see the moon - check. Bugger, bugger, bugger - check, check, check.
How long, I wonder, before I get another opportunity?
Dave
at the last few items on your list!
I don't know how often these things happen but, I suspect they aren't very common. I subscribe to the Calsky email notification service (www.calsky.com) to let me know whenever the ISS will pass in front of either the moon or the sun. I've been waiting a few months now and haven't had a notification... I have received notification of other events (like satellites decaying near my location etc) but not a lunar or solar transit.
I spotted the ISS for the first time last night as well, at least with my telescope -- I just tracked it visually the last time it came across on a clear night, but that was nearly a month ago, and I've been kicking myself every since for not taking the telescope out that night! This time I had the 'scope out, even though there was a lot of cloud cover. I could still see the moon through the clouds, so I figured I might get lucky and spot the ISS through it as well.
Sure enough, after a few minutes of looking up in to the clouds, I saw a faint but clearly visible white dot drifting quickly through the clouds. I swung my dob around and tracked it manually for about 30 seconds before it faded in to thick cloud.
It's a beautiful day here today, and if it holds, I might just try imaging the ISS on its pass tonight, now that I have my webcam.
I don't know how often these things happen but, I suspect they aren't very common. I subscribe to the Calsky email notification service (www.calsky.com) to let me know whenever the ISS will pass in front of either the moon or the sun. I've been waiting a few months now and haven't had a notification... I have received notification of other events (like satellites decaying near my location etc) but not a lunar or solar transit.
I had a great view a few min ago, 5-35 pm tuesday, from hazelbrook in the blue mtns, a good 4 mins or so- I hope the neighbours did not see me up on the roof!
Extensive cloud here tonight, but enough sucker holes to make it interesting. The ISS really seems to zip across the sky when you can see it, but it seems to go really slow behind a cloud.
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I was hoping to get some images of the ISS but no luck. I will have to try again on Tuesday.
at the last few items on your list!
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