ISS 080415

[Fay]

I had decided to have a go at the ISS tonight. I had setup the SW120, Canon 600D.
John Punnett came around for a visit, and we both went up the garden to see what we could do.

It seemed we were going to miss it, so John released the clutches and started to follow it with the Telrad, as I took the pictures, the camera was set at ISO 1600, RAW, 1/500th.

We are quite pleased with the result and got about 4 quite good ones, for a first try. it would be good to have another go with the DMK.

It was a great evening, very enjoyable even if we had not got any pictures.

[RobertM]

That's a really excellent result Fay, good focus as well.  You must be well pleased the way that came out.  It might be harder with the DMK - it's a very small chip compared with the Canon !

It's good to hear you're managing to get out as well.

Robert

[Kenny]

Wow that's brilliant! One of the clearest shots I've seen. Very cool!

[The Thing]

That is astonishing Fay! John and yourself obviously make a great lucky imaging team!

[julian]

Nice one Fay/John.
I was on the phone in the garden talking to David when the ISS went over.

[MarkS]

That is really good!  Well done.

It reminds me I haven't had a go at the ISS for literally years.

You definitely need the large sensor to catch it.  To get it on a small sensor will require accurate motorised tracking.

[Ivor]

Well done nice shot. I managed to see go across the sky as I only just got back, there are quite a few opportunities to give this another go this month.

[JohnP]

Ha..Ha Fay, That came out well considering ..... Good job we had the back up plan after the initial setup missed the target You did a good focus job on Jupiter as well...

An enjoyable evening & good result..

John

[Fay]

It was good to get out there, and the setup was not tried and tested, thought it would be hit and miss, as it was difficult to get a good idea of the distance of the ISS from Jupiter and on moving the scope, was the image on the camera upside down or not.
it was decided to get positioned north of Jupiter towards Pollux.

Really good to get a result, need two people though, to do it this way

[Carole]

Well done both of you.
Nice sharp image.

Carole

[Kenny]

Must chat to you all at the next meeting about how to do this. Really fancy having a go.

[Kenny]

Fay - I presume this is an image cropped from a much larger frame (from your DSLR)?

You definitely need the large sensor to catch it.  To get it on a small sensor will require accurate motorised tracking.

Mark - How would you track the ISS?

[The Thing]

Mark used to use bluetack and luck coupled with good hand to mount co-ordination!

[Kenny]

Mark used to use bluetack and luck coupled with good hand to mount co-ordination!

[Fay]

crop