ISS solar transit

[Peter Ward]

Nailed the ISS transit over Sydney today. (Kudos to CalSky! )

Early data below. (I have yet to layer in the proms and add colour...)

http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery87.html

[erick]

Great capture, Peter! :eyepop::thumbsup:

[peterl]

well done!!!!
This shot is a keeper for the photo album... :)

peterl

[Merlin66]

Excellent result!!!
Congratulations on a great capture.

[DavidTrap]

Nicely executed!

DT

[Quark]

Very nice work there Peter and a great catch with the ISS.

Cheers
Trevor

[AstroFlyer]

Excellent capture!
Nothing but clouds here.:sadeyes:

[von Tom]

Fantastic

[DavidU]

Well done Peter, it's a corker !

[cookie8]

Absolutely brilliant!! First such capture in Australia I suppose?

[Matt Wastell]

Great image Peter!

[Peter Ward]

Thanks guys... Prominence data and psuedo colour added. same URL.

First ISS transit capture in Oz? It would be nice but I doubt it...

[Matt Wastell]

Hi Peter

Keep the B&W around too!

[sheeny]

Lovely work Peter!

What was your exposure duration for each frame? You have done an excellent job of stopping the speedy little sucker...



Well, no, I've done 2, but not as well as this!

Al.

[Liz]

Bloody marvelous Peter!!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

[multiweb]

Awesome! Not unlike the plane across the moon shot. :thumbsup:

[jjjnettie]

Sweet. You've gotta be chuffed about that!

[StephenM]

Great stuff Peter!

Cheers,
Stephen

[spearo]

very cool!
frank

[Bassnut]

Very tidy and well timed/composed altogether, the sun alone is an excellent rendition, let alone the transition.

[Octane]

Perfectly executed, Peter!

H

[Peter Ward]

The Lucam software was set to 0.9 milliseconds.

The Skynyx 2-2 can only deliver 12 fps at full res....but it did well in getting 7 frames with the ISS crossing the sun. (the last was partial hence not included)

[h0ughy]

nice result Peter - you were lucky as it was raining up here

[alan meehan]

WOW Peter what a fabulous shot ,well done
AL

[Terry B]

6 space stations on the 1 frame.:P

Very well done.

[Paul Haese]

Cracker jack image Peter, tried for this several months back but I was a little too far off the centerline. Really nice to see a good image of the transit.

[Peter Ward]

Thanks again guys. My wife thought it looked like ducks flying past the sun. Couldn't really argue the point. :)

I've modified my image processing a tad, same URL (http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery87.html), but the ISS now looks a little clearer, and sun a little less processed.

[seeker372011]

:thumbsup:
Awesome

[strongmanmike]

Just saw this Peter, wow! top shot :thumbsup:

Mike

[Peter Ward]

Thanks Mike. I've attached a couple of pics taken from the capture location
(Heathcote Park..it was just a few hundred metres off the predicted centerline).

Thought about using more FL and a DSLR, but as the event was only going to last 0.34 of a second (!) , decided to capture an AVI, then use AVI stack and photoshop to re-layer the frames with the transit silhouette.

[astroron]

Peter,somehow I have missed this thread:shrug:
Great capture and Processsing:thumbsup:
Cheers

[Peter Ward]

Thanks Ron. One more "on location" piccy, showing the Skynyx and Taka configuration, added below.

(keen eyed observers will note my G-11 still has the prototype one piece worm block attached...'cos if 'aint broke, dont fix it :) )

[gregbradley]

Wow, that's amazing. What a capture.

Greg.