My best ever ISS

[Chrissyo]

I'm feeling pretty happy right now! I've just come in from imaging the International Space Station from tonight, and I've captured my best results!

Details: 10" F5 Newtonian on a Dobsonian mount (I hand tracked the ISS through my finderscope). I used a 2X barlow lens and my DMK21AU04.AS. The settings in IC Capture was 60FPS, an exposure of 2000 (which was pretty much guessed at ... next time I might give increase the brightness a tad) and a gain of about 300 I think. I first had the scope on Saturn to get the focus right.

Visually speaking (through the finderscope), it was the best ISS pass I've seen! It went (from what I could tell) straight over Mars then right past Omega Centauri on its way out! Fantastic!

The images are shown below. I captured/processed the images on a different laptop to the one I'm on now, and it's screen is a bit brighter. As such, the image looked a tad dim on this computer. So I've played with the brightness a bit to fix it up. So the first image is suited for brighter monitors and the second image is suited for dimmer monitors. I hope. :P The third image is a quick attempt I made to throw a few frames into Registax and resample 1.5 times. It's pretty noisy, but I plan on giving it a much better go tomorrow afternoon after my exam.

[iceman]

WOW! Absolutely stunning!

Excellent, excellent result. Very well done.

How many frames had the ISS in them?

[madtuna]

Simply outstanding! :thumbsup:

[Chrissyo]

Thanks. :)

There were about 6 usable frames out of the total 9000+ frames. :rofl: I think I must have breathed on my finderscope before the pass because I couldn't see where the crosshairs where, so I spent the whole time guessing where the centre was. About half way through the pass I had to stop and twist the dob around 180 degrees because I had my laptop set up on the wrong side of the scope and my DMK cable was starting to stretch out. So normally I get more frames, I just mucked up a tad this time.

[StephenM]

Brilliant images Chris!

Well done!

[sheeny]

They are superb, Chris! Well done!

Al.

[renormalised]

Fantastic piccies!!!!..Well done Chris:):)

[Matty P]

Awesome Chris!

You have done a great job with it. Nice and sharp. :)

I am hoping to capture a few images of the ISS tomorrow and on Thursday. Your image has flicked on a switch, making me want to capture the ISS again.

Very well done. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[RB]

Fantastic capture Chris, excellent indeed.

:eyepop:

[cookie8]

Speechless!:eyepop:

[spearo]

amazing
well done mate!
frank

[Ric]

Well done Chris, they are awsome images.

Cheers

[Rob_K]

That is mind-bogglingly good Chris! :eyepop: You've got incredible detail there, and the exposure (always a tricky one) is fantastic! Well done!! :thumbsup:

Cheers -

[AlexN]

I am utterly gobsmacked! That is absolutely unreal!

+10 awesome points for you! :D

[Chippy]

If this was a mucked up attempt, I can't wait to see what you produce when you get it right! Awesome :-)

[allan gould]

I can't believe what you are doing. Absolutely brilliant.

[rogerg]

Wow. Amazing resolution and clarity. And to think it was 300 odd KM away!

[Quark]

Hi Chris, What an absolutely stunning achievement, to even be able to get the ISS onto the chip at all, let alone coming up with such a superb image, you have lifted the bar for everyone else.

Heartiest Congratulations
Regards
Trevor

[Deeno]

Brilliant!!

[MrB]

Absolutely Awesome, well done!

[Jen]

:clap::clap::clap: nice pics :thumbsup:

[gaa_ian]

Very good Image Chis.
Send it in to spaceweather !
It would be very worthy inclusion.

[Kirkus]

Oh, holy cow!

Out frickin' standing!

[Liz]

Wowowow :eyepop::eyepop: well done Chris!!

[Tandum]

Unbelieveable ... I like it :)

[Kevnool]

Crowning achievement ,Thats 1 for the resume..:cheers:...cheers Kev.