ISS solar transit, Friday 2-Sep
- rwilkinson
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ISS solar transit, Friday 2-Sep
The program is predicting a solar transit of the ISS just after 4:34pm this Friday afternoon, visible from central Bolton:
Re: ISS solar transit, Friday 2-Sep
Ross,
Are those time GMT or BST?
Cheers,
Dave
Are those time GMT or BST?
Cheers,
Dave
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Re: ISS solar transit, Friday 2-Sep
They are BST (="daylight saving time") - I manually set a +1 hour offset in the program over the summer months.DRatledge wrote:Are those time GMT or BST?
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Re: ISS solar transit - missed it by a minute!
After a mostly cloudy day it did start to clear around 4pm, but at 4:34 there was dense cloud in front of the Sun, whereas just 60-sec later it had cleared enough to get this image:
http://www.boltonastro.org.uk/Gallery/d ... m=55&pos=6
This is the set-up which I used: Then the sky got much clearer from 5pm!
http://www.boltonastro.org.uk/Gallery/d ... m=55&pos=6
This is the set-up which I used: Then the sky got much clearer from 5pm!
