The Dutch Observatory

October 4, 2010 on 9:04 pm | In ISS | Comments Off

Imaging Jupiter has been a challenge for me lately.  The seeing has been really bad so I have not taken much time to process the data I captured.  I might get back to that in a while when things slow down.  In the meantime I’ve been busy with outreach programs and keeping track of ISS transits.  Today we had a Sun transit at 12:45 P.M.  Frank and I went out to capture this and Art Zorka from Atlanta came out to see how we do this.  The forecast was for 31% cloud coverage, so we were prepared to miss the event.  However, the sky was clear during most of the setup, but shortly before the pass a cloud moved in…… and out.  Two minutes before the pass, I ran a test run on my camera and believe I captured another satelite transit the sun.  Than the cloud moved in and out and on the way out the transit happened.  The image shows partly clouds covering the sun while the ISS came through.