HST lunar transit

[StephenM]

Hi all,

I captured my first Hubble Space Telescope lunar transit last night. I used the 50D and 70-200 f/4L at maximum frame rate (6.3 fps), with 1/250 sec exposures at f/4, and 400 iso. The resulting images were used to produce this animation. The predicted magnitude of the HST was 1.5 (Calsky), but I think it was a bit brighter than that.

The 1.1 meg animation is here:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8194/8118836315_7947f3d17d_o.gif

Thanks for looking!

Cheers,
Stephen

[el_draco]

That's really cool!

[Rod771]

That is really cool indeed. Would have been fun putting that together.

Thanks Stephen I enjoyed that :thumbsup:

[Nico13]

Great capture Stephen thanks for the show. :thumbsup:

[jjjnettie]

:) Nice catch Stephen.

[iceman]

Awesome, great catch!

[StephenM]

Thanks Rom, Rod, Ken, Jeanette and Mike!

I'm a bit surprised at how well this worked, and that Hubble was visible against the brightly-illuminated Moon.

Cheers,
Stephen

[Larryp]

That's really neat, Stephen!:thumbsup:

[stardust steve]

i love a good transit :thumbsup:
Nice one

[Forgey]

Nice one Stephen, well done.

[Matt Wastell]

I love these!

[nandopg]

Hi Stephen,
That is really cool. Great animation !!

Thanks for posting,

Fernando

[ourkind]

What an awesome catch!

So that's what a yellow school bus looks like flying through space :lol:

[DavidNg]

Well planing and excellent execution!

[StephenM]

Thanks very much Laurie, Steve, Paula, Matt, Fernando, Carlos and David! Glad you like it.

Cheers,
Stephen

[Paul Haese]

Well done on the capture.