International Space Station from this morning

[iceman (Mike)]

Hi all

We had a fairly nice pass this morning, reaching about 57deg altitude. I set my 12" newt up on the EQ mount to start with, and I used Betelguese which was nice and high so I could get focus and set exposure and align the finderscope.

I then shifted the OTA to the dobsonian base and waited for the ISS to appear. I also had the 350D set up on the tripod to capture the wide field view. As soon as I saw it behind the trees, I started the shutter on the 350D and pressed record in IC Capture.

12" newt, 2x barlow, DMK21AU04, 60fps, 1/1667s shutter, 125 gain.

I'm fairly happy with the result, it's all practise for the time when everything comes together. I like the shadow across the radiators - a view I haven't captured before.

Here's a 12-frame animation of the best frames in the pass.
ISS animation (350k gif)

Thanks for looking.

[sheeny (Al)]

Good stuff, Mike.

There'll be nother good pass Saturday night...

Al.

[Dennis]

Superb hi-res images Mike – well done!

Cheers

Dennis

[h0ughy (David)]

nice capture Mike

[RB (Andrew)]

Excellent Mike !

[leon]

My God Mike, that is pretty good, very well captured indeed.

Leon

[Lester]

Fantastic.

[pvelez (Pete)]

Originally Posted by sheeny

Good stuff, Mike.

There'll be nother good pass Saturday night...

Al.

What time Al?

Pete

[Matty P (Matt)]

Awesome capture Mike. I love the animation.

Very well done.

[sheeny (Al)]

Originally Posted by pvelez

What time Al?

Pete

Just after 20:00:

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...899#post371899
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/calenda...de=view&id=467

Al.

[Garyh]

Great capture Mike! You can see that the ISS is getting bigger all the time!

[OneOfOne (Trevor)]

Woo hoo...what more can I say.

[peeb61 (Paul)]

Another great capture Mike...well done!

[Inmykombi (Geoff)]

Fantastic animation Mike.

I wish I could have the ability to photo the ISS like you do.
I also enjoy watching it pass, especially when I am with a group of " General public viewers".
Keep 'em coming Mike.

Geoffro.

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Top work Mike, very clever.

[RobF (Rob)]

Fascinating stuff - thanks for all the detail on how you've accomplished it all too Mike.

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

u de man!

that is sensational

just waiting for the hubble servicing mission, and hopefully seeing your image of this

[iceman (Mike)]

Thanks for all the kind words, guys.

My wife and I watched the Saturday night pass from the trampoline. I would've loved to capture it through the scope, but we had been out to dinner with the kids and only just got home, so no time to setup

There's an early (7:20pm ish) pass tonight but the sky will be quite light! Plus setting up during happy hour won't put me in any good books

Narayan the HST only gets to about 10-15deg here I think, so it's extremely unlikely i'd be able to capture anything.

[spearo (Frank)]

Mike,
well done mate,
the first one is excellent!
I prefer it to the second because it sems a bit less bright and thus seems to show more detail.
great job
frank

[Kevnool (Kev)]

awesome....cheers Kev.