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Old 24-02-2008, 07:23 PM
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Originally Posted by iceman View Post
No different than imaging a planet, but much harder

You've gotta manually track it through the finderscope, so a couple of things are very important:

1. Finderscope very accurately aligned with the CCV FOV
2. Focus on a star beforehand
3. Set the exposure on a very bright star with similar magnitude as your pass.
4. Start recording, and track it as it goes along.

All of that, and hope that you get a few hits of the ISS on the avi.
Thanks for your input Mike,

The Heavens Above website says that the ISS passing tonight will be a bright -2.3mag. So it will be a tad hard to find a star similar to that brightness. What should I do?

Barlow or no Barlow?

I really apreciate your help.
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