[Gargoyle_Steve (Steve)]

I'm also on the Sunshine Coast Chris and I saw that pass tonight (and it was a GREAT pass too I might add!) but from my location at Caloundra most of this pass had the ISS behind a very thin but noticable cloud haze, such that the ISS was always visible naked eye, but stuff all other stars were visible through it (none, actually, if I remember rightly).

I don't know what it was like at your place but if those images were taken through the haze as well .....




PS: Try a right angle finder instead, that may have made your amazing achievment even MORE amazing, or at least more comfortable! I can lend you one if you want to try it next time, let me know.