ISS lunar transit animation

[lukebl]

Hi all.

The International Space station did a transit of the moon at my location this evening. The station was illuminated, rather than silhouetted, and I wanted to capture it as it crossed the terminator. Unfortunately very high winds, terrible seeing and cloud made things a bit challenging! Due to the cloud I could only manage 30ms exposures which, for an object travelling at 8 km/second 'only' 650 km away, wasn't sufficient to freeze it.

Anyway, heres a gif of some of the captured frames. At least you can see the double trail of the solar panels. The ISS appears on 2 of the frames.

QHY5-ii mono cam, TAL 2x Barlow, 250 mm f/4.7 Newtonian.

Single frame:

 

 

[Pete Presland]

A nice record of the event, despite the problems. 

[SilverAstro]

Nice one. Actually, I like it that way , full of action, dynamic, different !

[Uplooker]

Luke,

Well done. Given the conditions that is a brilliant capture. Pat yourself on the back for that one!