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22-08-2018, 07:09 PM
<--- Comet Hale-Bopp
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ISS tonight
Nice International Space Station pass tonight! A PB for me by the look of it. Manually tracked by hand.
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22-08-2018, 07:30 PM
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Wow - that is a cracker of an image, well done.
22-08-2018, 07:46 PM
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Kevin, that's magnificent!
I can see the crew waving to you, great skills in achieving this quality.
22-08-2018, 07:49 PM
Big Scopes are Cool
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Amazing. Will have to give that a try one day.
22-08-2018, 08:05 PM
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WOW mate, that's awesome. 400 kms up and doing more than mach22, incredible !!!!!!
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22-08-2018, 08:38 PM
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Absolute cracker. Well done
22-08-2018, 09:18 PM
<--- Comet Hale-Bopp
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Thanks all! I'm having fun pushing this 8" to it's limits. Although I don't think this is the limit just yet.
22-08-2018, 09:41 PM
Colour is over-rated
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Fantastic shot.... how do you track and shoot at the same time?
22-08-2018, 10:02 PM
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I’m going to bed....not even worth trying to out do that one.
22-08-2018, 10:34 PM
<--- Comet Hale-Bopp
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Quote:
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Lee
Fantastic shot.... how do you track and shoot at the same time?
Thanks Lee. It's not easy, but I have an 80mm refractor piggyback on the SCT with a right angle finder, which helps. The 10" Newtonian is much easier to do it with due to being less awkward. I should have posted a pic of the setup. Maybe tomorrow.
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I’m going to bed....not even worth trying to out do that one.
Thanks Jon!
23-08-2018, 02:38 PM
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Stunning. Well done. How do follow it. Is it using the keypad while looking through the finder scope?
23-08-2018, 04:22 PM
ze frogginator
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Unreal!
You're getting very good at this.
23-08-2018, 06:58 PM
<--- Comet Hale-Bopp
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
batema
Stunning. Well done. How do follow it. Is it using the keypad while looking through the finder scope?
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Originally Posted by
multiweb
Unreal!
You're getting very good at this.
Thanks Mark and Marc!
I used the ED80 on top to track it while moving the lot manually by hand. I had everything turned off at the time.
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23-08-2018, 07:12 PM
Colour is over-rated
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My son is doing space at school this term, much to my delight.... We've been observing Jupiter each night, and tonight watched a nice bright ISS flyover. I showed him your pic 'WOW!' was his reponse.... you officially impressed an 8 year old with an astropic..... well done!
23-08-2018, 07:26 PM
<--- Comet Hale-Bopp
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Lol thanks Lee. I hope it gave him some inspiration for the future.
23-08-2018, 07:58 PM
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Thanks for posting the setup pic Kevin. Did you use a barlow or just the native 2m focal length? Good to see you can manually track the iss with an eq mount.
26-08-2018, 09:33 PM
<--- Comet Hale-Bopp
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Just regular prime focus Peter.
26-08-2018, 11:43 PM
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That is a Cracker, Kevin
27-08-2018, 03:53 AM
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AMAZING ....
Best
JA
27-08-2018, 12:12 PM
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that's a beauty Kevin, well done!
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I can see the crew waving to you, great skills in achieving this quality. 
