SpaceX Dragon docked with ISS

[Kon]

SpaceX Dragon docked with the ISS on 16 July. I managed a couple of captures last night with one pass at 70 and then next one at 88degrees. Seeing was ok through light haze from the heat. I love how the colours on the panels are changing between the two passes. The SpaceX Dragon is well defined in the 88 degree pass. 8" Dob, manual tracking, ASI462mc, 2.5x TV powermate, UV/IR cut filter. PIPP, Autostakert and Astrosurface.

Edited July 18, 2022 by Kon

[Freddie]

Great shots Kon.

[Alan White]

Some of the best ISS shots I have seen, nice.

[maw lod qan]

I don't know which is the most amazing part.

Your excellent images, or how often you get the chance!

[rrb24]

Fantastic - great shots once more! 👍

[Kon]

59 minutes ago, maw lod qan said:

I don't know which is the most amazing part.

Your excellent images, or how often you get the chance!

I currently get 3 passes a night.early morning; you may want to move to UK 🤣. What is annoying is the seeing! A lot of light haze due to either the heatwave we are having and lack of any rain to clear the atmosphere. I do not seem to be able to pull much details.

[morimarty]

3 hours ago, Kon said:

I do not seem to be able to pull much details.

I could not disagree with you more Kon.They are Amazing shots.😄👍

[Kon]

19 minutes ago, morimarty said:

I could not disagree with you more Kon.They are Amazing shots.😄👍

Thanks. You know what I mean 😉...I think I am spoiled from the other night that was really sharp. 

[tomato]

Really, really impressive. Myself and @Tomatobro had a go at imaging the ISS for the first time last night, so I now know just how hard it is to get a result anything like as good as this.👍👏

[Kon]

21 minutes ago, tomato said:

Really, really impressive. Myself and @Tomatobro had a go at imaging the ISS for the first time last night, so I now know just how hard it is to get a result anything like as good as this.👍👏

Thanks. Was that with the 16" Dob 😮, or your other setup? Once you get the feeling for it, it is kind of straight forward and mostly dependent on the seeing to get the nice details (a bit like all other AP). I had to trash my whole capture from last night; not a single frame was worth it. I think the heatwave had left a lot of atmospheric disturbance and high haze. I am looking forward to seeing some of your captures soon.

[Tomatobro]

58 minutes ago, tomato said:

I now know just how hard it is to get a result

We both have observatories so are a bit rusty in setting up from scratch an EQ6-r and Altair 4 inch. Together with laptop software issues it was a bit of a challenge. We allowed two hours before the first ISS pass to get organised and we missed it by a few minutes. We practised on other satellite passes before the next ISS pass. I have not seen the results yet but we have some images with a bit of luck

Edited July 19, 2022 by Tomatobro
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