![]() You can always find your precise latitude and longitude at NASA’s Latitude/Longitude Finderand altitude at Google Maps Find Altitude. Credit: Bartosz Wojczy?skiĬlick on the link and fill in your local latitude, longitude and altitude or select from the Google maps link shown. This is a screen grab from the homepage of Bartosz Wojczy?ski’s most useful ISS Transit Finder. ![]() But the ISS Transit Findermakes the job simple. As you’d suspect, the chances of the space station lining up exactly with a small target like the Moon from any particular location is small. While taking a photo sequence demands careful planning, seeing a pass is bit easier. The ISS is the largest structure in orbit, spanning the size of a football field, but at 250 miles (400 km) altitude, it only appears as big as a modest lunar crater. The ISS transits the Full Moon in May 2016 Once the team knew when the pass would happen, they used a digital camera to fire a burst of exposures, capturing multiple moments of the silhouetted spacecraft. The photo above was made by superimposing 13 separate images of the ISS passing in front of the Moon into one. Full Moon is best, since it’s the biggest the moon can appear, but anything from a half-moon up and up will do. ![]() Only about a half second! To see it with your own eyes, you need to know exactly when and where to look. One-one thou… That’s how long it takes for the International Space Station, traveling at over 17,000 mph (27,300 kph), to cross the face of the Full Moon. Credit: Michel Breitfellner, Manuel Castillo, Abel de Burgos and Miguel Perez Ayucar / ESA What strange creature is this flitting across the Moon? Several members of the European Space Agency’s Astronomy Center captured these views of the International Space Station near Madrid, Spain on January 14 as it flew or transited in front of the full moon. ![]()
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