ISS at 6am on a weekend

[Kon]

ISS fly overs are at either 5 or 6am these days and I should be sleeping at that time on a weekend but....... I have been experimenting with my ASI120mc-s camera and my Dob over the weekend to capture it. I think I got some nice results in the end. I feel the 70fps is still low and I find that my DSLR is giving me better results since I can have the shutter at 1/4000s of a second. Captured at 0.7ms, gain 24. Used PIPP and AS!2 for stacking. Some editing in Gimp. Capture rate not bad; 11000 frames and over 8000 had it so quite pleased with that.

[Nik271]

These are great images, Kon! The ISS moves so quickly, at this focal length you must be doing miracles with your Dob to keep it in the frame and in focus!

[Kon]

1 minute ago, Nik271 said:

These are great images, Kon! The ISS moves so quickly, at this focal length you must be doing miracles with your Dob to keep it in the frame and in focus!

Thanks Nik. I spent nearly 1hr aligning my camera to the finderscope this morning (I realised that it is perfectly aligned for my EPs but with the camera i had to offset a bit).

[rwilkey]

Wow, they are perfect, well done!

[Sp@ce_d]

Amazing… well done! Sad to think it’ll be de orbited in 9 years.

[Pete Presland]

A fine set of captures, still not a very easy target despite the mount of images online these days.