ISS @ 1800mm

[astronobob (Bob)]

Man, what a baffling last week, out Leyburn dark sky and the astro lappy blew up, so doing manual widefield, sky was not real clear anyway ? also ran out of petrol 30k from home Later, fired up the home PC and it decided to throw it in, replaced the power supply and upgrade the graphics card while at it !

Anyway, here is my last attempt at the International Space Station from Mon Jul 8th Night pass,
ED100, F9, Meade 2" 2x Barlow. Raw file enabled better some color flaring management and ridding some ghosting glowing goings on with the oridginal file, speshly around the ISS body, due to its high reflectivity ! !
Further info on the Image , ,
Hope you find it worth the Squizz , ,

[multiweb (Marc)]

Bob, you're a freak. And I mean that in the best way possible.

[Brettstar6754]

Great image.

[h0ughy (David)]

fantastic result

[iceman (Mike)]

Excellent result Bob!

[Dennis]

Wow Bob, that is a stunning photo!

I’m sure you have one of those NASA or US Military motorised tracking platforms that can follow rockets at launch!

Cheers

Dennis

[Quark (Trevor)]

What a great effort there Bob, super job.

Regards
Trevor

[asimov (John)]

Pretty unbelievable mate!

[pluto (Hugh)]

Very awesome!! great work

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Holy crap that's good Bob!!

nothing else to say really!

Cheers,

Justin.

PS, that should go on APOD.

[trent_julie]

Thats got to be an image of the week!

[batema (Mark)]

Truely amazing. Wonderful image but can you tell me how you go about focusing as I would like to have a crack at doing one of these. You certainly have shown us what is possible. Brilliant.

Mark

[Hans Tucker (Hans)]

Originally Posted by astronobob

Man, what a baffling last week, out Leyburn dark sky and the astro lappy blew up, so doing manual widefield, sky was not real clear anyway ? also ran out of petrol 30k from home Later, fired up the home PC and it decided to throw it in, replaced the power supply and upgrade the graphics card while at it !

Anyway, here is my last attempt at the International Space Station from Mon Jul 8th Night pass,
ED100, F9, Meade 2" 2x Barlow. Raw file enabled better some color flaring management and ridding some ghosting glowing goings on with the oridginal file, speshly around the ISS body, due to its high reflectivity ! !
Further info on the Image , ,
Hope you find it worth the Squizz , ,

IIS own Thierry Legault

[naskies (Dave)]

Another fantastic effort, Bob! Any tips for tracking the ISS? Did you loosen the clutches and track it by hand, or did you "chase" it with the keypad?

[ourkind (Carlos)]

Bob that's freaking awesome!!! What a top result!!! Congrats

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Originally Posted by trent_julie

Thats got to be an image of the week!

That's what I reckon too.
An awesome capture Bob.

[RichardJ (Richard)]

Brilliant capture Bob. Well done!!!!

RichardJ

[killswitch (Edison)]

Wow great snap. Was it hard to track and frame the ISS at 1800mm?

Ive got the same set up as you and been waiting for a Moon ISS transit.

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

Stunning - sorry to hear about the dramas!

[astronobob (Bob)]

Hey Much Thanx to all & everyone's comments I have to say Im a little overwhelmed and not sure where to go with this, except to say, that I didnt think much of these ISS photos, mainly because I thought there were plenty of them about and much betterra, or, that ISS captures were just not interesting ?
So, I do really appreciate the feedback fellas
Cheers to all , ,