Look! ISS has been spotted!

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Kevin Hall avatar
The title says it all)
Share you ISS spottings
I'll go first
April 1, 2021
The gain was auto-scaled up to 400+, that's why the image is rather noisy
Carlos Uriarte avatar
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kuechlew avatar
Amazing! Any infos about how you captured this sequence?

Best regards
Wolfgang
Kevin Hall avatar
Amazing! Any infos about how you captured this sequence?

Best regards
Wolfgang

*** The video is made of 350 neighbour shots. 10 ten mins before the flight through I managed to find the only visible star for me, Capella. I forgot to take off the blend in a hurry, and it was rather windy. I think I could increase the running next time ***
Stuart Taylor avatar
wow! that's great! What telescope were you using?
Kevin Hall avatar
Stuart Taylor:
wow! that's great! What telescope were you using?


The Sky-Watcher AZ-EQ6 + Celestron C8 XLT + GSO 2" + barlow 1.46x (fl about 3m) + asi290mm + zwo EFW mini + Baader LRGBIr(Ir pass 685).
Also Meade 16" f/10 LX200-ACF
Alex avatar
Amazing to see Kevin and even more stunning considering you haven’t used a mount with an integrated satellite tracking routine.
Kevin Hall avatar
Alex:
Amazing to see Kevin and even more stunning considering you haven’t used a mount with an integrated satellite tracking routine.


I saw it with my eyes when it had an altitude of 30 deg. The capturing happened when the ISS reached 48 deg.
Alex avatar
Guess you used some satellite tracking software for the tracking (forgot the same of the program) or was it manually - what would be absolutely amazing?
Stuart Taylor avatar
Alex:
Guess you used some satellite tracking software for the tracking (forgot the same of the program) or was it manually - what would be absolutely amazing?

Would it even be possible to track the ISS manually? The Celestron 8" XLT has a focal length of 2032mm!
Kevin Hall avatar
Alex:
Guess you used some satellite tracking software for the tracking (forgot the same of the program) or was it manually - what would be absolutely amazing?


I used NASA's tracking service
Kevin Hall avatar
Stuart Taylor:
Alex:
Guess you used some satellite tracking software for the tracking (forgot the same of the program) or was it manually - what would be absolutely amazing?

Would it even be possible to track the ISS manually? The Celestron 8" XLT has a focal length of 2032mm!


thanks for your notion. I also used Meade 16" f/10 LX200-ACF
Alex avatar
Stuart Taylor:
Alex:
Guess you used some satellite tracking software for the tracking (forgot the same of the program) or was it manually - what would be absolutely amazing?

Would it even be possible to track the ISS manually? The Celestron 8" XLT has a focal length of 2032mm!

In fact yes, but people who do it manually normally use Dobsonians for it and tracking it with a very well aligned finder scope.