File:International Space Station Space Shuttle Atlantis Sun Transit 2010.jpg

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Image of the solar transit of the International Space Station (ISS) and Space Shuttle Atlantis 50 minutes before docking, taken from the area of Madrid (Spain) on May 16th 2010 at 13h 28min 55s UT. Atlantis has just begun the "R-bar pitch maneuver": the shuttle performs a backflip that exposes its heat-shield to the crew of the ISS that makes photographs of it; since its approach trajectory is between the ISS and the Earth, this means that we are seeing Atlantis essentially from above, with the payload bay door opened. Transit forecast calculated by http://www.calsky.com. For this transit of a maximum duration of 0.54s, the visibility band crossed Spain, southern France, Northern Italy, Austria etc. This band was 4.8 km wide but being placed at its edge implies that the transit duration becomes zero, so in practice the author had to be placed less than 1 km from the center of the band. The choice of central Spain has been deduced from the study of weather forecast and detailed maps on Google-Earth.

ISS distance to observer: 391 km. Speed in orbit: 7.4km/s (26500 km/h or 16500 mph).

Author(s)


Thierry Legault
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Thierry Legault
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http://axilone.com/legault/iss_atlantis_transit_2010.html at http://www.astrophoto.fr
Date created


May 16th 2010 at 13h 28min 55s UT
Country of first publication


France
Notes


from Thierry Legault

to Daniel Mietchen date Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:14 AM subject Re: Image du transit SSI/ Atlantis

Daniel, c'est d'accord, avec un crédit contenant mon nom et www.astrophoto.fr

cordialement


At 20:04 19/05/2010, you wrote:

   Bonjour M. Legault,
   j'aime bien la photo a
   http://astrosurf.com/legault/iss_atlantis_2010.jpg , et je voudrais
   l'utiliser comme illustration
   supplementaire a
   http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/International_Space_Station .
   Pourriez-vous m'autoriser a le faire?
   Merci beaucoup!


   Daniel
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