spaceweather.com has reported on a video of ISS transiting Jupiter on 2004 May 14 at 01:34 UTC, taken by Gary Trapuzzano of Pennsylvania. The article is located at: http://www.spaceweather.com The story is archived. To read it, enter May 17, 2004 in the text boxes at the upper right of the above web page, and hit the "view" button. Scroll down the heading THE ISS & JUPITER. Here is a quote: "At the last minute my friend Mike Atwell and I decided to try to capture the eclipse on video," says Trapuzzano. "After driving to the site and setting up, we had only 38 seconds to spare. Because I didn't know how close the ISS would get to Jupiter, I exposed the image to include Jupiter's moons. Had I known our location would be almost exactly on the centerline, I would have reduced the exposure to show more detail. All-in-all, doing this was a total blast for both of us." Here is the URL of a high-res animation: http://science.nasa.gov/spaceweather/swpod2004/17may04/Trapuzzano1.gif The caption of the video states the observation site coordinates: 40.55105 N, 75.44720 W. Altitude was not specified; 150 m is typical of towns in the area. Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue May 18 2004 - 18:34:59 EDT
