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Old 29-09-2013, 07:20 AM
Dennis
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ISS over Brisbane, 28th Sept 2013, 6:47pm AEST

Hello,

NASA kindly e-mailed us to notify of an ISS passage over our back garden so I decided to “have a go” with the Tak Mewlon 180 F12 and ASI 120MM CCD camera at prime focus (2160mm).

I used a heavy duty photo tripod and a binocular alt-az fork mount and tried to follow the ISS in the finder scope. The ASI 120MM ccd is 1280x960 pixels fiving a FOV of approx. 6x4 arcmin, so I wasn’t expecting great results. From the 8126 frame AVI (over 9 GB) I manually found a handful of frames with the ISS in the FOV, the remaining 8100 were empty!

Here are two of the better frames; no stacking was possible so these are just single frames.

Tak Mewlon 180 F12
ZWO ASI120MM CCD camera 1280x960
˝ millisecond exposure.

Cheers

Dennis
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