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Old 05-02-2008, 12:55 AM
Night Owl
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Join Date: Jan 2008
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Shooting from the hip

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Originally Posted by iceman View Post
Hi all

I put my 12" newt on the dob base (not on the EQ mount), and aligned the finderscope with a star. I tracked the ISS manually by peering through the finderscope and moving the tube, trying to keep the fast moving bright dot centered on the crosshairs while my DMK21AU04 (in a 2x barlow) was recording at 60fps.

It was an adrenalin rush
Awesome work mate. What you have done is like shooting a fly on the wing from the hip, yet you scored a hit.

Your work is an inspiration to me, and, at the risk of using a pun, "something to aim at".
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