On Friday morning I managed to capture two frames of the International Space Station transiting Jupiter. I missed by a little bit.
I used a 10" goto dob with a ZWO 120mc camera. Capture software was SharpCap and the frame rate was 30 fps and the exposure was 0.64mS with the gain on 50 which apparently was the maximum on auto. I borrowed my mates camera. I extracted the files as tiff (premier pro) and stacked Jupiter from the remaining frames that did not contain the ISS. I then dealt with the two individual frames of the ISS to try my best to improve them visually however almost anything I did caused them to pixilate. I tried using the minimum dust and scratches to see if this helped but it caused the ISS to blur and loose a small amount of detail.
Anyway I have done this twice now and thought I would post both to get any advice before I do attempt 3. I only have Photoshop CC so if any processing advice this is the program I will be using.
Brilliant! On processing, you could try a touch of sharpening with an unsharp mask, or even with Registax wavelets, but as the ISS is single frames, these won't be all that effective. Probably the way to improve is a faster camera/frame rate to freeze the motion, but to be honest, few people have done as well as this!
I was inspired by this extraordinary image and played around with it a bit. I used Maxim DL and ran a deconvolution filter on it that is supposed to take a little of the atmosphere induced effects out of the image. Hope it makes the ISS part of it a bit clearer. Not sure if any better but here it is...
That's awesome Mark. Something new. Nice catch. 
