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ISS Transit and Almost New Moon  (please give it a few seconds to load), Dan Goelling

ISS Transit and Almost New Moon (please give it a few seconds to load)

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
ISS Transit and Almost New Moon  (please give it a few seconds to load), Dan Goelling

ISS Transit and Almost New Moon (please give it a few seconds to load)

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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International Space Station Transit of our moon. December 13th 2020 at 08:10:30 EST. Very difficult to see as the moon was less than 15 degrees from the sun and at 18.6 degrees above the horizon. Had to use a 685NM IR pass filter to get enough contrast of the daytime sky and almost new moon. Actual speed shown. Thanks for looking!

Transit info from transitfinder.com:

Sunday 2020-12-13 08:10:31.16 • Lunar transit

ISS angular size: 25.68″; distance: 1075.86 km

Angular separation: 5.7′; azimuth: 138.9°; altitude: 18.6°

Center line distance: 5.44 km; visibility path width: 31.68 km

Transit duration: 1.32 s; transit chord length: 31.2′

R.A.: 16h 21m; Dec: -21° 02′; parallactic angle: 31.6°

ISS velocity: 23.5 ′/s (angular); 7.36 km/s (transverse)

ISS velocity: -0.92 km/s (radial); 7.42 km/s (total);

Direction of motion relative to zenith: 84.6°

Moon angular size: 33.2′; 77.5 times larger than the ISS

Moon phase: 1.7%; angular separation from Sun: 14.9°

Sun altitude: 8.0°; the ISS will be illuminated

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