ISS with approaching Soyuz MS-24
Taken by Alberto Vacca on September 15, 2023 @
Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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The International Space Station was in good visibility conditions on 15th September 2023 from my city in Italy, when it was 68° above the horizon just some minutes before Soyuz MS-24, carrying a NASA astronaut and two cosmonauts, docked to the ISS. Here is the timelapse video of the passage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoeZ-1Bomqo.
The vehicle is pointed by the red arrow in the center of the video, that shows the central 3 minutes of the pass and has been sped up 10 times.
To track the ISS I used a software written by me that connects the telescope to PC, using the ASCOM platform, and sends the right commands to the mount to keep the satellite in the center of the image.
The idea of this program was born almost a year ago from the desire to take shots like this one, in which the Space Station is observed as it approaches and changes angles: the idea has finally come true and soon I hope to be able to make the program available to amateur astronomers who want to try this kind of photography.
The video starting time is: 2023 September 15, 20:48 local time (18:48 UT).
Location: Parma (Emilia-Romagna, Italy), home garden.
Equipment:
- Celestron Nexstar 127slt maksutov telescope, on its alt-azimuth mount
- Zwo Asi 120mc-s color camera.
Software:
- FireCapture (video recording)
- PIPP (debayer and aligning)
- Adobe Photoshop (rescaling of the image and final adjustments).
Photographer's website:
https://www.instagram.com/alberstein08/
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