The ISS Transit Finder is a new web application designed to help amateur astronomers and astrophotographers understand when and exactly where the International Space Station will fly over your area, without the sun preventing you from seeing it, and also in front of the moon.
The ISS Transit Finder website was created by Polish photographer Bartosz Wojczyński , who previously released an incredible high-resolution photo of the moon as well as one of the North Pole.
The use of the website is simple: first, you must enter your location, providing the latitude (latituden or φ), longitude (longituden or λ) and the elevation (elevation or h). If you want to make things easier, you can select a point from the map, or you can allow your browser to locate your location on behalf of the website.
Next, you will need to select a date range for your observation as well as the distance you are willing to travel to achieve better results.
Finally, press “CALCULATE” (Calculation) and the application will give you a list of upcoming passes of the ISS and the Moon where you can make observations and, if you wish, photography.
If you still don't have a makeshift telescope and want to see how the ISS looks when it passes in front of the Moon, watch the video below shared by Wojczyński on December 20, 2015, filmed from Pyrzowice in Poland:
