ISS Transits the Sun - First time for me.

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

"Gotchya!" I squealed, in joy, as I finally captured the ISS in front of the Sun. 1/2000sec single exposure. Taken from Adelaide, South Australia from my Observatory in my backyard. So much planning went into this, I am glad it all worked out...
Image taken at 11:49:23AM ACST. From Adelaide, South Australia on the 18th of July, 2016. Taken using an 8" f4 Newtonian, Canon 1100D, Bintel 2X Barlow screwed directly to MPCC to get the right image scale.

EDIT: Not too sure what happened with the compression with the image...

ADDED: The Processed image, 50 x 1/2000sec ISO800, ISS Added from a single frame. Most of the dust removed.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Nice catch.

[h0ughy (David)]

well done

[johnnyjetski (John)]

Well Done David. I know how much planning went into that shot. Even the luck of having some sort of sunspot activity on the day for focus.
Great result!

John

[Dennis]

Great work Andrew, a lot of planning is required to pull these transits off. Congratulations on your success, hopefully one of many more to come.

Cheers

Dennis

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Thanks to all.. I hope there are more to come, these things are very tempting to try and catch... Would like to try the Moon at some stage...