Last night, I finally had an opportunity to image the International Space Station. This was the first time I had attempted to image the ISS so I was a little bit nervous but at the same time excited.
This ISS passing was a magnificent magnitude -2.3 reaching a maximum elevation of about 60° overhead.
On the dot of 8:56pm the ISS appeared through the trees. This was a very bright passing so I was a bit unsure of the right exposure settings to use. I went with a 1/900sec exposure time with the gain set at maximum with the DMK shooting at 60fps. I aligned the RDF the best I could earlier so I had the best chance of getting the ISS on the CCD chip. Out of about 12,000 frames , I captured only around 120 frames with the ISS on it.
WOW! What a rush. I did not realise how hard it was to image an object that moves very quickly through the sky. It sure was fun though.
I think for a first attempt, I did pretty well. The images were a little bit over exposed due to a bit of uncertainty. Even though the image is not that sharp, (probably due to bad focusing) I am very pleased with the results.
In the image posted, are all single frames unprocessed from the AVI.
P.S. I am going to try to make an animated GIF, I will post the results.
yes it is very exciting and scary..........there is only a short time and you hope to hell you have got everything right (camera cover off, camera on, laptop on, camera plugged into laptop etc etc)
My First ISS Image
ISS Animation
Thinking about it... I must of been pretty lucky. 
