Hi all,
We had the ISS at magnitude 0.4 passing very close to Mars this morning, so I decided to have a go at recording the passage through my scope. I used a 20mm eyepiece (mag 50x) and hand-held my wife's Cybershot compact camera up the the eyepiece. The resulting movie can be found here:
http://s307.photobucket.com/albums/nn311/stephenmudge/?action=view¤t=ISSpassingMars 15May09.flv
(I hope this link works - I don't have the latest verson of Flash player at work so can't test it. I also have a 613kb wmv file if required.)
My rough estimate is about 5 minutes of arc separation at closest approach. The ISS was about 900 km away at this time, too far to be able to see solar panels etc.
I also managed a wider-field shot using my tripod-mounted dSLR, which is shown below.
Thanks for looking!
Cheers,
Stephen