Dual Transit on 8 June 2004 −
International Space Station ISS in front of Venus and the Sun
Path of the shadow of ISS on Earth during the transit of Venus:
from these tracks, both ISS and Venus are visible on the disk of the sun.
Whereas Venus transits the sun during over 6 hours, ISS crosses the sun in less than a second.
Dots mark the ground track for every 30 seconds.
The most westernly path crosses Europe.
A. Barmettler, www.CalSKY.com.
Double transits can be seen from areas on the black line through Greece on transit day after 08:20 GMT.
A. Barmettler, www.CalSKY.com.
The shadow of ISS crosses southern parts of Japan's island Honshu close to Kobe and Osaka after 08:53 GMT, when the sun with
Venus are already rather close to the horizon.
A. Barmettler, www.CalSKY.com.
ISS can be seen zipping across the disk of sun from places on the black line.
A. Barmettler, www.CalSKY.com.
Areas on the black line in Spain and southern France can enjoy a dual solar transit:
both the planet Venus and the space station ISS cross the sun.
This very special event can be observed with a correctly equiped telescope
or a solarscope. The silhouette of ISS will be about half the size of the disk of Venus.
A. Barmettler, www.CalSKY.com.
Areas on the black line in Austria, northern Italy, southern France can enjoy a dual solar transit:
both the planet Venus and the space station ISS cross the sun.
This very special event can be observed with a correctly equiped telescope
or a solarscope. The silhouette of ISS will be about half the size of the disk of Venus.
A. Barmettler, www.CalSKY.com.
The transit line of ISS also crosses the islands of Cape Verden and
and moves north-east across the Canari Islands, over the Atlantic Ocean along
the african coast until it just misses the Strait of Gibraltar.
A. Barmettler, www.CalSKY.com.
