ISS solar transit in ultra slow motion

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Hello,

This is the International Space Station crossing the disk of the Sun, recorded at 570 frames per second.

Location: Lubecko, Poland

Date and time: 2016-04-30, 07:50 UT (09:50 local)

Telescope: Sky-Watcher ED80 (f = 600 mm)

Mount: Sky-Watcher AZ3

Camera: ZWO ASI174MM

Filtering: ZWO G

ISS distance = 605 km, ISS angular size = 45.7", transit duration = 0.8 s

In order to reach 570 FPS, I had to limit the capture region to 1392x320 pixels. Each video frame is a mosaic of 5 separate panes.

 

Greetings

[Knighty2112]

Nice capture. Well done!

Was observing the sky the other night and whilst scanning the stars with my ST120 frac got a bright satellite in the viewfinder, so as I wasn't locked on looking at anything interesting at the time followed it for as much as I could through the EP. At one point another satellite came from another from another part of the sky and seemed to collide together in my view. Good job they were at different heights in their orbits, or else the runaway debris field as depicted in Gravity could have started! Hehe!  

[laudropb]

That is truly amazing. Well done.

[David Smith]

Fantastic video, thanks for sharing.

[mikeskor]

Impressive!