Alert: ISS crosses disk of Jupiter

chrisyeo · Post by **chrisyeo** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 11:13 am

Very interesting that the ISS is predicted to cross directly in front of the disk of jupiter on the evening of 2nd May.

Monday 2 May 2005 Time Object Event
19h06m51.10s ISS Crosses the disk of Jupiter. Separation: 0.002d
Angular Velocity: 35.6'/s. Transit duration: 0.02s
Angular diameter: 28.6" size: 73.0m x 44.5m x 27.5m
Satellite at az: 94.0d E h: 30.6d dist: 648.2 km mag=-1.1m
Satellite apparently moves to direction 279.9°
You are on the centerline of this transit! Path direction: 39.1d NE ground speed: 7.790 km/s width: 0.2 km

JY · Post by JY » Fri Apr 29, 2005 1:10 pm

Whoooo, that's the opportunity of the year to try something special !
That will be at about 30 deg altitude ... Hum ... better start thinking and blow the clouds away,

Cheers

Jean-Yves

ariefm71 · Post by **ariefm71** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 2:41 pm

chris, is this 19h06m51.10s singapore time or gmt? the sun may not set yet

chrisyeo · Post by **chrisyeo** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 12:54 am

It is singapore time. The sun won't have set yet so it's doubly hard to view.

Not even sure if the prediction will be correct.

chrisyeo · Post by **chrisyeo** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 8:57 am

Sorry to dissapoint; I got the information from calsky and it appears that the updated telemetry puts it only close to Jupiter and not transiting it.

The possibility of it happening at all was interesting though..

Cheers,
Chris