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Old 28-08-2017, 01:28 PM
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ISS lunar transit 26/08/17 from Astrofest

My apologies for the quality. I didn't even know this was occurring while we were up there, and I didn't take the appropriate gear with me. Had to improvise with my TMB92SS refractor and 5DII in video mode with an EOS adapter kindly loaned by Cosmoparadise/Nick.

Aside from that, I've never attempted anything like this before. When focusing and checking exposure beforehand, everything looked fine. But when clicking record video, the exposure went from where I wanted it (crescent moon correctly exposed, hopefully ISS get some detail) to crescent blown out, ISS blown, earthshine showing but noisy. Just inexperience recording video with 5DII.

And then there's the editing - not sure how to cut it down to just the transit without the dead time beginning and end. Anywho....

I am pretty stoked to have captured it. Has been on bucket list, and now can tick it off.

Here's the video for what it's worth.

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