ISS closeup - 11th April 2015

[lukebl]

Following Fay's superb capture of the ISS, I thought I'd have a go and, crikey, I was surprised at the result.

The ISS was passing virtually overhead at 21:37 tonight. I fitted my Canon 700d to my 250mm Newtonian and followed the Station through the finder and fired the Canon on continuous shutter mode. I missed it frequently due to its speed of passage, but managed a couple of half-decent captures including this one, 1/2000 second exposure @ 800 ISO. A different angle from Fay's result, so the solar panels are less visible.

I've tried it unsuccessfully before with a planetary cam, but the bigger sensor of the DSLR makes it much easier to keep it in the field of view.

[JB80]

Wow!

I have tried one with a planetary cam and it was rubbish.

That is a keeper Luke. Well done!

[Gazabone]

That's an impressive capture

[moondust]

really nice capture lots of detail great. Dennis.

[zedds]

Very nice!!

[lukebl]

Cheers folks. Here's a morning-after reprocess. A little more detail.

[dweller25]

Brilliant

[Fay]

You did really well there, great ISS!!!

Fay

[lukebl]

Thanks again folks. A non-astro friend thought that it looks like the Clangers' Iron Chicken!

[ghostdance]

That's superb! Yours and Fay's images of the ISS are just spectacular

Sigh....I miss the Clangers. And yes, it does...

ps I still miss Patrick Troughton too...

[toxic]

cracking ISS image well done

[JamesF]

Absolutely.  Well done, Luke.

Unexpected that a DSLR should produce such excellent images.  It certainly wouldn't have occurred to me to try it.

James

[Grotemobile]

Another well done here, as well

Really amazing..

Steve.