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Old 22-12-2009, 09:29 AM
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ISS passing Canopus and Achernar, 21Dec09

Hi all,

The clouds cleared in time for me to catch a mag -3 ISS pass at about 8:15 last night. I did a series of 5 x 10 sec exposures with my 18-50mm lens at 18mm, f/4.0 and 800iso (plus 5 darks), which were stacked using DSS and then adjusted using PS7. Here's the result. The LMC is visible above the tree, as is the SMC (faintly) and 47 tuc towards the lower right. This was the first time that we have had clear skies for a bright ISS pass for quite a while, so it was good to get out and capture it.

Thanks for looking

Cheers,
Stephen
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