My first solar ISS transit

[CalvinKlein]

This is my first attempt at solar photography.

The ISS was scheduled to pass in front of the sun from our Cudgen farm so I took this as an opportunity to tick "Solar Imaging" off my bucket list and ordered some Baader Solar Safety film from OzScopes and stuck it into a 3D printed aperture mask I had previously made for this telescope.

I used my Saxon 952mm refractor, Televue Powermate 2x and ASI183MC Pro on my EQ6-R mount.

The ISS measures 90x90 pixels at this image scale.

Captured as full sensor 5496x3672 20fps 8 bit video using SharpCap Pro (using an HP x360 i7 16GB RAM 500GB SSD which can capture twice the FPS as my 3 year old i5 Microsoft Surfacebook).

Colourised to yellow-orange (from its original blue-grey) in Photoshop

[h0ughy]

Awesome result

[JA]

Super CK :thumbsup:

Best
JA

[truss]

Nice capture CK. I didn't realise the ASI183MC Pro was able to capture 20fps at that res.

[CalvinKlein]

Thanks David.



Thanks JA :-)



Thanks heaps - yes it makes for an excellent general purpose video camera
when high speed RAW images are required - e.g. lightning captures - but it needs a powerful laptop with a big SSD to do the capture. This was 15 gigabytes for 30 seconds.

[Dennis]

Love these transit images - well done.

Cheers

Dennis

[truss]

I have recently upgraded my five year old Dell Precision laptop with a new Precision 7540 (i7-9880H, 64GB RAM, 2TB NVMe Class 50 SSD), so I think I have the data capture covered :D

[CalvinKlein]

Thanks very much Dennis :)




Ohhh nice ! That'll do the job.

Whilst I've loaded up all my deep space capture software on the new HP I've decided to stick with my 5 year old HP with Windows 7 - mainly because the game controller for telescope control "just works" without having to jump through hoops trying to get it registered with Windows 10 everytime I start the computer. Plus I'm not quite ready to ditch Stellarium scope or ye olde style ASI drivers in favour of the completely "new and improved" versions of everything on the new HP.

[batema]

Congratulations. Beautiful result.

Mark

[CalvinKlein]

Thanks very much Mark :)

[astronobob]

Very impressive Kelvin :clap: :cool2: