ISS solar transit from Dublin next Saturday?

Hey Albert,
would this qualify as an attempt at the ISS Observing Challenge?

If you image it then yes it would count as part of the challenge

So, you're sayin' that if people download the ISS Challenge from the Observing folder in the Files Section, they'll get more info?

Well, wouldn't ya know it - skies cleared just a few minutes before the transit EXCEPT that a cloud covered the sun for just a FEW DAMN SECONDS at the time of the transit! :evil:

Anyway, it looks like we might get another chance on Bank Holiday Monday just before 11:40. Send me a private message if you are interested in the details.

A transit of the ISS would look like a small black dot moving very very quickly across the face of the Sun. It lasts for a maximum of about 1/2 second! However, it's an "interesting" observational, timing, navigational and cloud-avoiding challenge.

it looks like we might get another chance on Bank Holiday Monday just before 11:40. Send me a private message if you are interested in the details.

Sorry to hear you just missed out Chris! It was cloudy here for much of the afternoon, so I didn't give it a second thought myself.

you should make the details public regardless - it can only be good. Into the Observations forum I think?

Seanie.