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My first solar ISS transit
This is my first attempt at solar photography.
The ISS was scheduled to pass in front of the sun from our Cudgen farm so I took this as an opportunity to tick "Solar Imaging" off my bucket list and ordered some Baader Solar Safety film from OzScopes and stuck it into a 3D printed aperture mask I had previously made for this telescope.
I used my Saxon 952mm refractor, Televue Powermate 2x and ASI183MC Pro on my EQ6-R mount.
The ISS measures 90x90 pixels at this image scale.
Captured as full sensor 5496x3672 20fps 8 bit video using SharpCap Pro (using an HP x360 i7 16GB RAM 500GB SSD which can capture twice the FPS as my 3 year old i5 Microsoft Surfacebook).
Colourised to yellow-orange (from its original blue-grey) in Photoshop
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