ISS Alert! Transit Tonight at 6:45 PM

Since the ISS will be near the sun, it is not safe to look for it during the daylight using binoculars. Please don't risk your vision by pointing unfiltered optics towards the sun.

WAS member John Kriegel sends this alert: the International Space Station will transit across the sun from Metro Detroit today. If you have a solar filter and a safe way to view it, don't miss this rare opportunity. He provided the image of the ISS's path below:



He says,
"This image is from a NASA applet, that calculates sighting opportunities. I just happened to be using it in a "non-standard" form where it shows each pass whether it can be seen from the ground or not and there is an option to draw the projected path through a virtual sky and just happened to notice that it passed in front of the sun a few seconds after 18:45:27 today."

Since the ISS will be near the sun, it is not safe to look for it during the daylight using binoculars. Please don't risk your vision by pointing unfiltered optics towards the sun.