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Early evening pass and Lunar Transit ......February 12 2008 Something of a special event this one from the Liverpool John Moores Astrophysics dept. I was joined by Dr Jon Marchant (Liverpool Telescope Operations Scientist ) Chris Mottram ( LT Software Engineer ) and LT Head of MaintenanceAlan Scott Two video cameras plus the faculty's own LX 200 8 inch were trained on the Moon.In addition , using the latest elements I centred my LX90 on the transit line using a very small 4 arc minute FOV As transit time approached , ISS came into view. For me , things were not looking good . The track was further "south " than antcipated. As the video cameras registered the transit accompanied by some encouraging shouts of "There it is" , my screen remained blank....! Undetered I followed the complex until it departed to the east at a range of about 900km , giving us a full record of both transit and pass See video to the right Orbit 52872.9 17h43m00.11s ISS Crosses the disk of Moon : Transit duration=0.53s ISS Angular diameter=43.7" Altitude= 52.0° Distance=423.7 km Magnitude=-3.4mag Sun elevation=-5° Elongation from Sun=71° To view the LX200 movie courtesy of Liverpool John Moores University Dept of Astrophysics , click here. Jon Marchant's digicam video Alan Scott's video.....with audio ! (MP4 ) Preparations for the event

ISS departs to the east after crossing the Moon