Are these sequential frames from your video? Fourteen minutes seems a long time in advance to start recording. How precise was your expectation of the timing? Were you just being extra cautious? Do you think there would be any chance of observing a transit like this with the naked eye? Given the speed and size of the IIS, I suppose it would be tough. Do you remember the Light Ring project? Astronomers cried foul, but I think it would have been kind of cool. Your images, showing texture along the terminator, in my opinion rival the recent supermoon APoD.
That is a typo. Started recording 5 minutes prior. The calculations assume that the earth is a perfect sphere, and of course it is not. Then you input your height above the median geodesic zero point (used to be called mean sea level). As you are probably going to be off by either a few meters in GPS coordinates, or multiple meters in altitude, there is always a variation. One pass was a whole 45 seconds early, one pass was about 30 seconds late due to the altitude differences in what the maps say versus the "real" height above or below the way they calculate the transits. The ISS was very very cleanly visible in the phone's screen. These are not sequential. The camera was running in 2K mode at about 45FPS, the ISS was over the moon for 1.11 seconds. these two images showed the ISS better in stills; in the video you can really see it move along. Working on making it a gif image. ABSOLUTELY. I've done it. In this event, the ISS was in shadow, I've tried twice now to get it lit up but each time bad things happened and I did not get an image. When the ISS is lit up in the transit you can watch it cross the sky and then the moon. The website is transit-finder.com You can see if there are any transits visible to you. When you see a transit, click on the more information button and it will tell you, among other things, if the ISS is lit or in shadow. I have about 200 still images that are WAY better than this that I will tinker with over the weekend.Fourteen minutes seems a long time in advance to start recording
Do you think there would be any chance of observing a transit like this with the naked eye?
Your images, showing texture along the terminator, in my opinion rival the recent supermoon APoD.