International Space Station and deployed canadarm2 (19/05/24)

[Kon]

Another ISS pass at 60 degrees last night. I managed a few good frames despite the so and so seeing. I need to find the time to put the whole capture in an animation, but for now some of the best frames.

Apart from the several modules, I seem to have got the canadarm2 as well! 12" Flextube Goto, asi462mm, IR pass filter, 2.5x televue powermate. Manual tracking.

Edited May 20 by Kon

[Clarkey]

Once again, great shots. Did you make any progress on your automatic tracking plan?

[Kon]

2 hours ago, Clarkey said:

Once again, great shots. Did you make any progress on your automatic tracking plan?

Almost there. My antivirus is killing the connection between the mount and tracking software. I just need to turn it off and try.

[tomato]

I still don't know how you manage to get these shots, they are just amazing. You have not done a You tube video by any chance?😏

[Kon]

32 minutes ago, tomato said:

I still don't know how you manage to get these shots, they are just amazing. You have not done a You tube video by any chance?😏

Thanks. I am really trying on getting the tracking to work. No YouTube but happy to make a more detailed post on setting up, capture and processing at some point.

 

Will you keep the goto on your new 16" setup? If I get it to work, I am happy to share how I did it.

[tomato]

It will be push to with a Celestron star sense module initially but I wouldn’t be surprised if it ended up motorised at some point in the future.