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harrisa

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Oct 17, 2014 09:49 | #1

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Kept missing transits so I came up with a solution for triggering my shutter at the exact second(instead of minute) I wanted using a Triggertrap and a unix script. I've tried it a couple of times and it seems to work well. Let me know what you think.

http://blog.awharrisphotography.com …14-10-05-iss-transit.html

Thanks for looking,
Aaron

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Oct 17, 2014 10:10 | #2

Very nice catch Aaron . I've never had that chance . How did out find out when it was going to transit ?

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Oct 17, 2014 11:02 as a reply to @ Celestron's post | #3

Thanks Celestron,

If you're not crazy like me, you can goto CalSky's ISS page and enter in how many km you're willing to travel to the centerline for a transit in the middle of the page. 100km is the limit for me. I also set the duration in the upper left to 10 days. Anything more than that is not very accurate.

http://www.calsky.com/cs.cgi/Satellites/4

What I ended up doing I just created my own web page with most everything I need that's useful only for a 100 mile radius of where I live.

http://doublea.speedgeeks.org/iss/

The ISS passes are from Heaven's Above, and the transit predictions at the bottom are generated on my local PC with this quirky to setup software:

http://pictures.ed-morana.com/ISSTransits/predictions/

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Oct 21, 2014 03:00 | #4

Very well done.

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