ISS and Discovery during spacewalk 02/03/11

[melsky]

An improvement on my last offering I actually managed to get the ISS on 13 consecutive frames, I've turned this into a short animation loop to try and improve resolution.

It was great to watch the spacewalk on Nasa TV in between capturing the overhead pass, I waved at them but they didn't wave back

Mel

[MrsR]

Wow that is amazing

[MikeD]

Stunning, well done.:hello2:

Mike.

[RogerTheDodger]

WOW!

[Yidoboy]

That's superb! How did you manage to get such a close up view with so much detail?

[Psychobilly]

Brilliant

Peter...

[Slangers]

Were you actually up there in your own private shuttle?

[SkyJamie]

Fantastic Mel

All the best

Jamie

[Photosbykev]

stunning result a good candiate for pow

[Worzsel]

awesome

[phw26]

Great capture Mel.

[dogfish]

That is a seriously good capture

[G0JVK]

yet another stunning shot melsky i don't know how you do this but it's just awesome very well done once again sir keep up the great work.

regards. Rob

[beamish]

That me old chucker takes the biscuit ! Fantastic capture !! ....oh and probably one of the very best I've ever seen ! POW

[saturn5]

That is utterly amazing Mel,Amazinnnnnnngggg!!!!!!!!!!

[brantuk]

Terrific!! Amazing!!

[JAO]

That is just fantastic!

[Guest Andromeda1]

Absolutely brilliant!!!

[Hypernova]

That is astonishing

What equipment did you you use to get such level of detail? I am guessing your mount is computer controlled to automatically track the satellite as it passes over.

[NGEddie]

Superb!

[yoda]

WOW.

[ren_o5]

Ditto. Simply stunning...

[barkis]

I agree with all the others in the thread.

Absolutely Incredible. Well done sir .

Ron.

[Sp@ce_d]

My jaw... has hit the floor..

[melsky]

That is astonishing

What equipment did you you use to get such level of detail? I am guessing your mount is computer controlled to automatically track the satellite as it passes over.

"i Wish" it's all done on an Eztouch Alt Az head FLT110 scope x2 powermate manual tracking. I nearly had a disaster shooting this pass, The head is on a Manfrotto 075 tripod and as the ISS passed overhead I dashed round to the other side of the tripod and caught my trousers on one of the locks undoing it. This instantly turned my tripod into a bipod leaving me supporting the weight of the scope whilst still trying to track the ISS. I think the only reason these have come out so well is that I'm shooting at 1600iso with a shutter speed of 1/2000 sec.

Mel