International Space Station - 17 March

[Matty P]

Whooooo!!!

After my very poor attempt at the ISS on the 15th. I had one more chance to image the ISS before it disappears for a while.

After fixing a few problems with the exposure settings. I managed to capture what I think is the best image of the ISS to date.

This ISS passing was a bright magnitude -2.3 reaching a maximum elevation of about 84°. I used a 1/1200sec exposure time with the gain set at 100% and the DMK shooting at 60fps.

This time I was better prepared for the passing and set the scope up facing the right direction. Overall, I am extremely happy with these results. I still have a couple mof more frames to process.

Thanks for looking. :smile:

[Radar]

That is a brilliant shot Matt. In fact that's the best I've seen from a ground based telescope. Do you realise that the white blob on the space station is in fact Space Shuttle Endeavour which is currently docked with the ISS?

Ray

:bow: :bow: :bow: :bow:

[Matty P]

Thanks Ray,

I was wondering what that over exposed blob was. Thanks for spotting that.

[little legs]

WOW Matty, excellent shot.....:woot: :woot:

:bow: :bow: :bow: :bow:

[welshboy]

Nice capture of the ISS Matt.Mark