McNaught and the ISS "International Space Station"

[Tamtarn]

Taken last night with our new Pentax ist DL ..... with basic lens provided
McNaught and ISS

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Wow Barb or Dave (whichever one took the pic),

That is a classic! Probably never see that again, ever! Great Capture

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Did you set out to capture it on purpose or did it just happen?
Well done either way!

[Tamtarn]

Can't take credit for planning this shot,the ISS came into field while taking a 30 sec shot of McNaught from home.

[Tamtarn]

On Friday night while we were in the middle of taking a 30 second shot of McNaught the ISS appeared in thy sky just to the West of Mc Naught. It was extremely large and bright.........the best we had ever seen it!!

During the 30 sec exposure we captured the ISS with McNaught. We quickly took another 30 sec shot.The images were taken with our new Pentax ist DL ( which we're still learning to drive ) The lens provided is 18-50mm. Taken 30 sec 50mm f5.6 so they aren't very detailed unfortunately. We now have other faster lenses on the way



As we haven't seen any other images with McNaught and the ISS on the forum and we have no experience in processing as yet, would anyone like to try and enhance our images for us

Thanks in advance

David

[RB (Andrew)]

Had a go on your image David.
Tried to bring up the levels a bit.

Nice timing to get P1 and the ISS in the same frame.

[Dennis]

Terrific photos - quite a contrast, one object so far away, the other circling overhead. Well done.

Did you have the camera on auto-focus as the stars look a little out of focus? With my Pentax *ist DS I set the focus to manual, as the auto focus tends to hunt for best focus and often misses the sweet spot when confronted with a dark sky and a few bright dots.

Cheers

Dennis

[Tamtarn]

Thanks Andrew for enhancing our image. More detail can be seen now

Dennis the camera was set on Manual and is mounted on a camera tripod for now. Hoping to get a tracking mount soon

[circumpolar (Matt)]

From my point of view at Nth Richmond the ISS past through the comet and continued through the sky until it reached Cancer. It maintained it brightness all the way. It took me by surprise.