Tag: ISS moon transit

Greater Toronto Area Space Station Flyovers for the week of February 20th, 2022

According to www.transit-finder.com, Monday morning’s ISS pass will transit the moon for 1.34 seconds, visible to observers within a strip that starts west of Hwy 6, continues across southern Milton, Mississauga, northern Toronto, and ends south of Lindsey. Artificial satellites are visible because they are high enough to be bathed in sunlight while the sun…
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Greater Toronto Area Space Station Flyovers for the week of January 17th, 2021

The ISS transit on Thursday night, January 21 will pass across the moon’s disk for 0.6 seconds at 6:08:39.8 pm EST – for observers across Port Perry, northern Toronto / southern Richmond Hill, Brampton, and Cambridge! Find details at https://transit-finder.com/ Artificial satellites are visible because they are high enough to be bathed in sunlight while…
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A Pretty Moon Every Evening, Morning Mars Swats Saturn, Evening Venus Kisses the Seven Sisters, and Afternoon Astronomy Online!

This composite of many successive images by Kris Smith shows the International Space Station flying across the disk of the full moon.Photographing these transits require careful planning and split-second timing. Another one will occur for Toronto on Saturday evening, April 4, 2020. NASA APOD for Nov 14, 2016. Hello, April Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy…
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