HST lunar transit

[StephenM (Stephen)]

Hi all,

I captured my first Hubble Space Telescope lunar transit last night. I used the 50D and 70-200 f/4L at maximum frame rate (6.3 fps), with 1/250 sec exposures at f/4, and 400 iso. The resulting images were used to produce this animation. The predicted magnitude of the HST was 1.5 (Calsky), but I think it was a bit brighter than that.

The 1.1 meg animation is here:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8194/8...47f3d17d_o.gif

Thanks for looking!

Cheers,
Stephen

[el_draco (Rom)]

That's really cool!

[Rod771 (Rod)]

That is really cool indeed. Would have been fun putting that together.

Thanks Stephen I enjoyed that

[Nico13 (Ken)]

Great capture Stephen thanks for the show.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Nice catch Stephen.

[iceman (Mike)]

Awesome, great catch!

[StephenM (Stephen)]

Thanks Rom, Rod, Ken, Jeanette and Mike!

I'm a bit surprised at how well this worked, and that Hubble was visible against the brightly-illuminated Moon.

Cheers,
Stephen

[Larryp (Laurie)]

That's really neat, Stephen!

[stardust steve (Steve)]

i love a good transit
Nice one

[Forgey (Paula)]

Nice one Stephen, well done.

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

I love these!

[nandopg]

Hi Stephen,
That is really cool. Great animation !!

Thanks for posting,

Fernando

[ourkind (Carlos)]

What an awesome catch!

So that's what a yellow school bus looks like flying through space

[DavidNg (David)]

Well planing and excellent execution!

[StephenM (Stephen)]

Thanks very much Laurie, Steve, Paula, Matt, Fernando, Carlos and David! Glad you like it.

Cheers,
Stephen

[Paul Haese]

Well done on the capture.