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Solar ISS Transit Apr 8 2022, walkman

Solar ISS Transit Apr 8 2022

Revision title: Solar ISS Transit Apr 8 2022 Color Version

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
Solar ISS Transit Apr 8 2022, walkman

Solar ISS Transit Apr 8 2022

Revision title: Solar ISS Transit Apr 8 2022 Color Version

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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I managed to capture an ISS transit of the Sun this morning.  The path over the island of Hawaii luckily passed over a state recreation area only about 50 minutes drive from my home in Hilo.  It was cloudy and rainy in Hilo and along Saddle Road but the park was clear and sunny but quite windy.  I used my Lunt LS80THa SS mounted on a Sky Watcher Az GTi mount.  I had to reset the pressure tuner on the Lunt as the park is at an elevation of about 6500'(1981 m).  I captured the transit using an ASI174MM camera and FireCapture.

The video caught about 80 frames as the ISS crossed the Sun in about .75 seconds.  I used PIPP software to extract the frames of the transit.  Then I used ImPPG to bring out the prominences, PhotoShop to rotate, crop and color the frames and PIPP again to make the animations.

The resulting animations are much slower than the actual transit.  There are both B&W and false color versions.  The files can take awhile to load so you may need to be patient.

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