ISS photo attempt

[Frank Ryan]

Hi all,
Just a quick note to let ye know what some of us are up to lately...

As ye know the ISS is passing over Ireland again this week.
I had some succes photographing it through my 5'' ETX a while back:
http://www.irishastronomy.org/boards/vi ... 91&start=0

But Dave gave me a shout the other evening to see if we could try the same thing but through his 20'' Obsession!


Crazy as it sounds, We'd done this kind of thing before with Saturn and the
results were very encouraging.
http://www.irishastronomy.org/boards/vi ... saturn+dob

Alas,
We had no luck for the past 2 evenings due to bad weather &
equipment issues.

Hopefully we'll get a chance again soon.
If we only managed to get one frame I'd say the image would be awesome!

Here's to good weather and less equipment gremlins.

[Frank Ryan]

Actually Dave,
Here is a shot of the settings I used for the webcam that time I
Photographed the ISS & Shuttle,
I think is's slightly different to what we had in terms of shutter speed and gain?

[Dave Lillis]

Frank,
The setting you show aren't so different from what we were using.

We had no luck for the past 2 evenings due to bad weather &
equipment issues.

Equipment issues??, whoever said manually pointing a half meter wide eight and a half foot long telescope with a 10 arc minute field of view at a target going 10 miles a second was easy. although having a slightly mis-aligned telrad didnt help .

Hopefully we'll get a chance again soon.
If we only managed to get one frame I'd say the image would be awesome!
Here's to good weather and less equipment gremlins.

One image, 1 image, that's all I wanted, ah well, next time I suppose.

[Frank Ryan]

Still keeping an eye out for the ISS tonight.
I reckon if it was clear we would have stood a chance.
There were a few bright stars visable so focus and exposure could
have been sorted.

Even though the clouds were around you could still see it quite plainly
through them.

Here is a quick shot: