ISS close ups from 10th Feb

[StarlightKnight]

Captured with ASI120 & C9.25, hand guided, single frames, centred with PIPP & lightly processed in Registax

Don

[Ruud]

Really good, wonderfully detailed views of the ISS - Thanks!

[Bizibilder]

Those are really good - hand guiding at that focal length mist be pretty difficult!

[mikey2000]

I'm amazed!  I had no idea this kind of pic was possible.  I had to google ASI120 - I think it is a camera attachment.  Can I ask what telescope you used?

[Sam]

Wow, great shots. It must be very difficult keeping the IIS in the FOV.

[Grotemobile]

A double wow as well. That is

one hell of a capture.

 

Steve.

[Pete Presland]

Excellent level of detail, I had another go as well this week unfortunately the focus was off. Are focusing on a star? 

[Davey-T]

Excellent ISS Don lots of detail.

Dave

[PhotoGav]

Wow, they are spectacular captures. I can almost see Tim waving!

Please share your tracking technique as one day I would love to give this a try.

[mdstuart]

Starlight....I sent a tweet of one of your amazing pics to Tim P...I hope that's ok.

I saw him go over earlier this evening!

Mark

[StarlightKnight]

26 minutes ago, mdstuart said:

Starlight....I sent a tweet of one of your amazing pics to Tim P...I hope that's ok.

I saw him go over earlier this evening!

Mark

Thanks guys

In reply to the various questions and comments.

The telescope is a 9 1/4" Schmidt Cassegrain 2350mm FL on an EQ5 mount. The ASI 120 is a ZWO CCD camera. Field of view is only 7x5 arc mins. When the ISS is directly overhead its travelling at about 1 degree / sec. I follow the space station through a right angled finder with a double cross hair.

I've done a quick reprocess on one of the images as I wasn't entirely happy with it !

 

Don

 

 

[Mrbloke]

That is ridiculously amazing. Well done

[JemC]

A cracking set of images, especially the re-processed one, well done indeed.

Regards
James

[todd8137]

Wow that's a great image most prob the best I have seen 

pat

[MilwaukeeLion]

Incredible images !

[skywatcher250]

Just wow.  Photos of the furthest intact humans from us in the universe ?

[Aussie Dave]

Fantastic shots Don. I really do like that last one, well done.

[laudropb]

Very nice captures. The detail in the last shot is fantastic.

[michaelmorris]

Superb shots. I really must have a go at this myself one day. If my results were a tenth as good as yours, I would be well chuffed.

[T-WING]

Fantastic! Well done!

[symesie04]

Truly incredible images. I just have no idea how you can hand guide and get results like that.

[Rig3l]

Hand guided?? Wooooow! Great job! You're a god

[Daniel-K]

Don these are amazing. 

[Physopto]

Can't say any more than the others really. Fantastic shots. Also did not think it was possible let alone by hand guiding. Makes  me wonder what you would get with a larger scope!

I suppose we could ask Tim  to do a space walk just as you are doing the next set and get him to wave. 

You should be rightly proude of these images.

Derek

 

[StarlightKnight]

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Makes  me wonder what you would get with a larger scope !

Do you think I could hire Hubble !!

Thank you all very much for your very kind words.

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Don