ISS flyby animation

[lukebl]

Here's a fun animation of tonight's pass of the International Space Station over my garden.

I captured it by hand-tracking the scope using the viewfinder (no mean feat, particularly when near the zenith) whist simultaneously clicking the shutter. It's a bit blurry and grainy, but it's quite small, the seeing was bad and my hand's not very steady!

This is comprised of 56 frames over a period of about 2 minutes. Omegon RC8 (fl 1624mm), Canon 700d, 1/1000 sec exposures @ ISO 800. Gif created in Photoshop

At the end of the clip the ISS passes fairly rapidly into the earth's shadow.

 

[callisto]

Fantastic 👍

[Stu1smartcookie]

watched the ISS pass by the moon as it sailed from west to east ... absolutely brilliant video ..