ISS Transit of the Moon – Brisbane 21st Nov 2015 7:35:59pm

[Suzy]

Phoarwwww I'm speechless

Just shared on our facebook page .

[astroron (Ron)]

Originally Posted by Dennis

Hi Ron

Thanks and great to hear from you.

I must say I was a little rusty after a bit of a break from setting up and using the gear, but a new ASI 174MM CCD camera inspired me to get outdoors again.

Cheers

Dennis

Glad to see you back in the swing of things Dennis
Hope to catch up again one day.
Cheers

[SkyWatch (Dean)]

That looks amazing. Well done Dennis!!!

[iceman (Mike)]

Wow Dennis, you are still amazing.. even after all these years

Incredible shots.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Once again you've humbled us all with your skills. An exquisitely detailed capture.
thank you for sharing it with us.

[Suzy]

IIS Image Of The Week I say oh yes, yes!
Sheeesh rather confusing IIS... ISS my typing fingers keep tripping .

[astroron (Ron)]

Should be a shoe in Suzy.
Cheers

[ags_ (Phil)]

Wonderful sets Dennis, I was going to try this one day but I'll leave it to you the master has set the bar far too high! I'm about to take my 174mm off and replace it with a imx252 it's been a beauty but will now be permanently on the Lunt where it also does a superb job.

Cheers, Phil

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by astroron

Glad to see you back in the swing of things Dennis
Hope to catch up again one day.
Cheers

Thanks Ron, would be great to catch up again, either at your place on a dark weekend or at an astrofest.

Cheers

Dennis

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by Suzy

Phoarwwww I'm speechless

Just shared on our facebook page .

Thank you Suzy, I appreciate that gesture, although I don’t have a Facebook account, or Twitter. Come to think of it, we don’t even have mobile ‘phones, (never had one), that’s how unconnected we are!

Cheers

Dennis

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by SkyWatch

That looks amazing. Well done Dennis!!!

Thanks Dean, I appreciate your comments.

Cheers

Dennis

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by iceman

Wow Dennis, you are still amazing.. even after all these years

Incredible shots.

Thanks Mike, the ASI 174MM made this so much easier than my long gone ToUcam. Ah, the good old days eh!

Hope you are your family are all well.

Cheers

Dennis

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

Once again you've humbled us all with your skills. An exquisitely detailed capture.
thank you for sharing it with us.

Thanks Jeanette, it was good to have it go over our back garden; it made the set up so much more convenient. And the weather gods smiled on me, just!

Cheers

Dennis

[RickS (Rick)]

Plenty of comments already and nothing much left to say... but bloody well done anyway, Dennis

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by ags_

Wonderful sets Dennis, I was going to try this one day but I'll leave it to you the master has set the bar far too high! I'm about to take my 174mm off and replace it with a imx252 it's been a beauty but will now be permanently on the Lunt where it also does a superb job.

Cheers, Phil

Thanks Phil, that looks an interesting camera, a 5 MPixel Sony Pregius sensor is a 2/3” with a 3.45 µm pixel size that can run at up to 100 fps in 12-bit mode or 150 fps in 8-bit mode.

Cheers

Dennis

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by RickS

Plenty of comments already and nothing much left to say... but bloody well done anyway, Dennis

Thanks Rick, good to be back in the saddle once more.

Cheers

Dennis

[N1 (Mirko)]

APOD material and considerably more impressive than the other ISS shot that went slightly viral a while ago (as did the colour in that pic - what was that about anyway?). The phase angle in these images here is a fair bit below 180° which adds a lot of depth to them.

Admirable.

I wonder whether a 3D anaglyph using 2 consecutive frames would work. Should come out quite nice.

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by N1

APOD material and considerably more impressive than the other ISS shot that went slightly viral a while ago (as did the colour in that pic - what was that about anyway?). The phase angle in these images here is a fair bit below 180° which adds a lot of depth to them.

Admirable.

I wonder whether a 3D anaglyph using 2 consecutive frames would work. Should come out quite nice.

Thanks for the comments Mirko, I appreciate them.

One of the (local) IIS members, Tom Harradine, also posted an excellent capture of this event on SpaceWeather. From his suburb in Brisbane, the ISS passed north of the crater Copernicus whereas from my location, the ISS passed south of the crater. Just shows how these close-to-Earth events are dramatically affected by parallax.

I understand that the ground track was a mere 7kms wide.

Cheers

Dennis

[H.Treur]

Fantastic result!
Wanted to see it passing the moon from Tambourine, but at that moment I was not in the position to watch.
As i understand from the replies, the parallax would have caused the ISS not to cross the moon (seen from Tambourine), am I correct ?

Anyway, I enjoy your pictures very much. Thank you.

[beren]

Awesome work Dennis