Thanks everyone for the kind words!
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If you could take a picture of your particular adapter, that would be great.
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I've attached some images of my adapter below.
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Excellent work Chris, just great. I reckon the dob base is perfect for hand-tracking of the ISS.. the EQ mount would want to move in all sorts of weird positions.
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Yup, that's my thought as well. The dob seems to work quite nicely.
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Just curious, when you were tracking by hand did you constantly keep moving the Dob while tracking or did you position just ahead of the ISS and let it drift through the FOV, reposition, drift, reposition, drift etc.
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I was constantly shifting the dob, trying to keep the ISS in the crosshairs of the finderscope at all times.
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If the shutter speed is fast enough, it still might be able to freeze the view? I would've thought you'd get a lot more frames if you tried to keep it in the field, rather than let it drift and re-align.
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Some of the frames smear a bit, but there are plenty that come out pretty sharp. Frame wise, out of about 3 minutes of the pass (the time I track it for) the ISS only passes through the cameras FOV 5 or so times (though that number has been increasing more lately as I've been practising tracking satellites). So there really aren't a huge number of frames to work with. All up I captured 50 frames of the ISS in this pass.
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Did the image bounce around a lot or was it quite steady?
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It was bouncing all over the place really. My method of tracking isn't accurate at all.
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It's times like this you need a 12" LX200R.
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I wish! Maybe I should go and enter a game-show or something to come up with the money.
Also, I mentioned in another thread that I managed to catch the 3:30am (or around about then, I can't remember the exact time off the top of my head) ISS transit. However, it was only about 30 degrees altitude at maximum, so the atmosphere stuffed it around a bit and the extra distance sucked (plus, I didn't get to track it for as long as I wanted because of all the trees in that direction at my place). Anyway, I nabbed two unprocessed frames and attached them below. Assuming the weather is fine, I'm going to give the ISS another go tomorrow evening.