ISS Through Scope

[EpickCrom (Joe)]

G'Day all. Last night the ISS passed over Perth. I've observed it naked eye many times before but last night I tracked it by hand through my 10 inch dob at 70x. It was moving very fast through the eyepiece, but I managed to see the panels on both sides. WOW! I recommend trying to see the ISS through a scope at least once, it will blow your socks off!

Joe

[sil (Steve)]

Yeah, did similar with DSLR years ago, was hard to keep it in frame, must have been damn hard with a scope, and it was great I got shots of it as its angle changed and could make out parts of it. Really cool and i’m always amazed at what we can see and capture with relatively simple gear from our backyards.
Plus ISS is going away soon right? So get out the with your scopes and take a chance to observe before its gone forever. I’d love to shoot it burning up but I doubt it’ll be observable from Canberra, Its going to die in the pacific graveyard right?

[EpickCrom (Joe)]

Originally Posted by sil

Yeah, did similar with DSLR years ago, was hard to keep it in frame, must have been damn hard with a scope, and it was great I got shots of it as its angle changed and could make out parts of it. Really cool and i’m always amazed at what we can see and capture with relatively simple gear from our backyards.
Plus ISS is going away soon right? So get out the with your scopes and take a chance to observe before its gone forever. I’d love to shoot it burning up but I doubt it’ll be observable from Canberra, Its going to die in the pacific graveyard right?

G'day mate. Yeah ISS will be gone one day, not sure when. I do believe it will die in the Pacific graveyard. Wow it would be spectacular if we could see it burning up in the atmosphere

[xrekcor (Rob)]

I had a similar experience with my 16” dob some years back and observed one of the space shuttles attached to the ISS. Amazing how much detail I could see.