[FPSPACE] ISS a Miss and a Hit !

[John Locker]

This evening I was invited to the local Astrophysics dept to help them set
up their LX90 telescope to try and caprure a lunar transit by ISS.

A 30 arc minute FOV was used on their scope , meanwhile I decided to go for
a tight field of view of 4 arc mintes.
We also had a couple of standard video cameras running.

Come the allotted time there were shouts of delight as their cameras
registered the pass......unfortunately...I saw nothing of the transit as the
pass line was well south of that predicted .

Undeterred I switched off the tracking on my telescope and began to manually
track the station to a distance of about 900km

We hope to have the transit videos on line within a day or so.... here's the
rest of the pass

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/satcom_transits/feb12.gif

There is a bright return at the sharp end of the complex.....it isnt
Columbus but I think may well be the OMS pods on Atlantis


John