International Space Station near Moon
Taken by Szabolcs Nagy on January 23, 2021 @
London, UK
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**Brief summary**
An opportunity popped up, something I haven't done for a long time! The possibility of a lunar flyby of the International Space Station (ISS).
The predicted apparent size of the ISS was 53°. I was broadcasting the event live on youtube, luckily 300+ people watched the event with me 🙂
I knew ISS won't pass in front of Moon, but I wasn't sure what the angular separation will be between the two objects. I used ISS Transit Finder website and also ISS Transit Prediction android mobile application to get some help for the target area I need to aim at. Luckily both were showing the same prediction and eventually I got lucky!
**Imaging and processing**
This is a composite image!!!
I took a high frame rate video (around 65fps) with the equipment below. Once I finished recording, I ran the video through a software called PIPP to break it down into individual frames. I improved the frames in Lightroom.
After that I processed the individual frames of the ISS flyby separately. The plan was to record multiple videos for a Moon mosaic, to cover the visible surface of Moon and combine the result with the ISS photo to recreate reality.
Sadly my mosaic attempt has failed, I wasn't precise enough so the full lunar mosaic has gaps, missed areas.
So I cropped the lunar mosaic and then combined with one single ISS frame from the flyby video.
More to come and all materials will eventually land on my website. Please visit if you are interested in manual ISS imaging.
www.spacestationguys.com
23/01/2021 18:34
London, UK
Equipment
Skywatcher 250/1200 Flextube dobson
ASI224MC
TMS-Astro Eq platform
Photographer's website:
https://www.spacestationguys.com
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