International Space Station - 17 March

[Matty P (Matt)]

Whooooo!!!

After my very poor attempt at the ISS on the 15th. I had one more chance to image the ISS before it disappears for a while.

After fixing a few problems with the exposure settings. I managed to capture what I think is my best image of the ISS to date.

This ISS passing was a bright magnitude -2.3 reaching a maximum elevation of about 84°. I used a 1/1200sec exposure time with the gain set at 100% and the DMK shooting at 60fps.

This time I was better prepared for the passing and set the scope up facing the right direction. Overall, I am extremely happy with these results. I still have a couple more frames to process.

Thanks for looking.

[iceman (Mike)]

Nicely done, great work. Looks like it could use an even faster shutter.

I missed tonights pass, had to go to a meeting

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

Great image Matty. I'm going to have to try this. How many frames did you shoot to get this one on the CCD?

[h0ughy (David)]

congratulations matty, thats an excellent effort

[spacezebra (Petra)]

Whooaaaa - this is brilliant.

Well Done Matty.

Cheers Petra

[Ric]

Top stuff Matty, a nice capture for sure.

I sure that's not as easy as it looks.

Cheers

[madtuna (Steve)]

oh Matty you suck!! I'm not posting my poor attempt after seeing yours lol

[Garyh]

That is a great capture!
I wouldn`t know where to start to get anything like this!
well done!

[RB (Andrew)]

Whahoooo congraaaats Matty............

Fantastic image, great capture, you've done very well with this one mate.
I can see you're hooked on this now.

It certainly was a nice flyover !

[leon]

Yep a fine capture indeed, that must be so hard to do, and you have done it justice, fine effort.

Leon

[Dennis]

A cracker of an image Matty - well done, you must be one happy boy with that one! A tough job executed very well indeed.

Cheers

Dennis

[sheeny (Al)]

Well done!

I missed it... too busy, too much happening, too many friends visiting...

who's complaining?

Al.

[Matty P (Matt)]

Thank you all very much for your kind comments. It is greatly apreciated.

Peter, I captured around 14,000 frames and only 200 had the ISS on them. Not bad compared to my other attempts.

Here is another image that I thought is acceptable to post.

Having a closer look. Is the over exposed blob the Space Shuttle Endeavour?

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

Matty,

How did you sort 14,000 frames to find the 200 with the ISS on them?

Peter

[Matty P (Matt)]

Originally Posted by peter_4059

Matty,

How did you sort 14,000 frames to find the 200 with the ISS on them?

Peter

Hi Peter,

To sort though the 14,000+ frames, I used VitualDub to individually go through each frame and delete the ones that did not ISS on them. Easy....

[madtuna (Steve)]

I'm sure the blob is the Shuttle Matty, I got that in mine too.
You being an expert can you look at mine and tell me where I went wrong? I'm a brand spanker with the ToUcam

[Astro78]

Nice Matty, very nice! How on earth do you track this?

Also great shot btw Steve.

Hanging for one you fellas to catch the shuttle docking, or a spacewalk!!!

[Matty P (Matt)]

Trav, now you've got me thinking. I would love to (one day) capture a shuttle docking or maybe evening a spacewalk. That would be amazing!

Steve, that is actually a very good capture. Just a question, what resolution did you use during the capture? 320x240 or 640x480?

I hope you don't mind but I ran your image of the ISS through PS and adjusted a few things.

Well done mate.

[madtuna (Steve)]

Matty I don't mind at all!! I was tossing up if I should email you privately and pick your brains.
I'm going to sound like a twit here..but I have no idea what resolution or what anything for that matter.

In fact I had been tracking it for about a minute before I even realized I hadn't started the capture yet

So any suggestions and pointers would be greatly welcomed

[Matty P (Matt)]

I thought I would post this image showing the ISS as it moves through the sky getting futher from the Earth.

Enjoy!