ISS.

[Trevor]

First attempt at the ISS. :?

It’s a tad hard trying to keep the C11 on target, used 6.3 focal reducer with Neximage CCD. 1/5th second exposure, will try 1/25th second next time.

As you can see really messed it up on the exposure.

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[Naz]

Impressionist photography / modern art 8)

naz

[Carl]

cool image trevor

[Trevor]

Another bash tonight if it remains clear.

This time I will try focusing on a mag 2 star at 1/25th shutter and turn everything down until the star is just visible on screen, unless anyone has any recommended settings?

[Carl]

Looking forward to it.

[Vega]

Respect for attempting it... I haven't yet, the though tof trying to keep that 20,000mph thing in my finderscope let alone my eyepeice sounds like an impossible task.

Plenty more opportunities to have another crack this week Trevor

Vega

[Trevor]

Here’s tonight’s attempt its going to take some time to get this figured out.

Single frame @ 1/25th second exposure.

Neximage CCD on C11 with 6.3 Focal reducer.

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[Vega]

single frame :shock: Best to use a webcam and registax for this malarky mate

Vega

[Carl]

I wanna see the ISS but haven`t, i wander what wage those astronauts inside are on Probably jack :x

[Trevor]

I took 1750 frames with the Neximage@ 320 x 240 with a frame rate of 10 per second that was the only decent frame that I captured, the problem is accurately tracking the ISS with the scope ,it’s a bit heavy to move around accurately.

A smaller scope shoulder held a bit like a RPG launcher would probably work better.

[Ant]

It does move at a fair old rate.

I take my hat off to you for even attempting this!

Good luck for the rest of the week.

Ant

[geppetto]

This is a really interesting task 8)

Might consider making a dedicated barn door tracker running at the correct speed to track the ISS

for a better chance of imaging

Where's me scribble pad

[Trevor]

I was thinking of modifying one of my rifle stocks to take a refractor and try using that to track, holding it from the shoulder with either a finder scope or a rifle scope to track........... get scribbling Phil.

Guess I would need a refractor first though.