I did it again! ISS

[Vega]

A direct overhead pass for Somerset on 12th December meant the stations pass was a dead straight line. This meant I could manually track my dobsonian with webcam attached in one axis (alt) and not worry about awkward jittery movements in azm.

Around 2 minutes of movie @10fps got me around 20 frames with the station in it. I am delighted with the results. You can clearly see the two operational solar panels on the left and the 3rd "stationary" panel on the right that has a broken joint at the moment.

Matt

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Wow! Thats fabulous Vega, excellent capture.

Kaptain Klevtsov

[CELESCOPE]

Gordon Bennet thats a cracker Matt , cant get better than that mate , a super shot .

well done

Rog

[Jamie]

Nice one Matt.

Best one i have seen to date..... 8)

[SteelRat]

That's flippin impressive that is Matt 8) Superb shot.

[supernova]

Best one ever I say....

[Whippy]

That is pretty darn impressive Matt!! Good work fella .

Tony..

[steppenwolf]

That is a very impressive image - congratulations!

[legion48]

Blimey Matt! :shock: That's even better than the last one. 8)

[Grant]

WOW! Thats the best shot of the ISS I think I've seen outside of NASA!

Awesome work!

[Black Shuck]

Superb ! 8)

Very interesting and enjoyable.

Thanks

Bill£

[robindurant]

Unbelievable. Well done,

Robin

[markcol]

Fantastic image Matt!

Mark

[Andrew*]

excellent work!

[lunator]

Matt

Thats an excelent pic

Well done

Cheers

Ian

[trevboyd]

Congrats Matt - that is far and away the best image I have seen of the ISS anywhere. I had a look around a while ago when I was going to have a go and never found anything even remotely like yours. I managed one with my 350D and 120mm frac, but its not even close!

I assume you used a webcam - out of interest, how did you focus it in time?

Trev

[themos]

good heavens! cracking shot, what?

[Hugh]

Awesome shot Matt.

Hugh

[Gene]

Even more impressive when Matt turns up at the local AS meeting with the photo in hand just 2 hours after the ISS went over! :salute:

[Vega]

Thanks Gene all part of the service :salute:

Thanks all for your very kind comments. Great to confirm it's not just a bright light up there and we are indeed looking at the ISS. When complete it will be one of the greatest technological / engineering achievements of our time IMO.

Matt

[Beyond_Vision]

Absolutely cracking shot Matt you must be chuffed to bits with that shot. I can picture you at that eureka moment when you realised that you had caught it with such clarity.

:salute: Hats off to you

Kevin

[Sam]

That's an awesome shot - it must have taken some real skill given how fast that thing moves.

[beamish]

that's the best pic I've ever seen of the ISS. Truly a winner!!

Karlo

[anthony]

Take pride in that - excellent work!

Anthony

[Locko]

Wow, Matt that is quite simply awesome,

well done

Steve