International Space Station with Orbital ATK's Cygnus OA-9
Taken by Szabolcs Nagy on May 30, 2018 @ London, UK
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ISS with Obital ATK's Cygnus QA-9 (Photo - 4 frames stacked) A real good sky welcomed the second bright over head pass of yesterday evening at 55° of max. altitude. I was out and filming from my balcony so I missed a little bit of the pass due obstruction of the next floor balcony above :) But it was still the most comfortable way of doing the imaging. Lazy astrophotography in action 😁 And I've got Orbital ATK's Cygnus OA-9 docked to Unity module!!!! ;) Equipment: Skywatcher 250/1200 Flextube dobson ASI224MC colour camera TeleVue 2.5x powermate
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Very nice !!
Exposure ? ISO ? Manual tracking ?
Posted by sweiller 2018-05-31 19:27:05
Thanks sweiller!
Im using a planetary camera so I dont have the usual values like ISO, expo was at 0.8ms and gain (instead of ISO) was at 200. And yes I always track the station manually at 3000mm of focal length. It is so much fun, especialky when all the details come together :)
Posted by wasabee007 2018-06-01 04:30:31
Thanks !

I also really like to track the ISS !!

You can see and maybe find ideas here
http://sweiller.free.fr/ISS/ISSTracking/Emmanuel-Rietsch-System/ISS-TRACKING-EmmanuelRietsch-TrackingSystem.htm

Manuel tracking has always been a challenge to improve !

In/at what do you look for smooth tracking (// optics ... FL ?, Telrad, viewfinder, else ?)

Do you track continuously or with leaps jumps in front of the ISS, waiting for it to enter the FOV ?

Do you track with the paddle or moving the slightly un-tightened scope by hand ?

BR
Posted by sweiller 2018-06-01 08:34:09
 
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