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Observing Report 30th January 2023 (ISS Lunar Transit)

Posted by on January 31st 2023 in My vids, Observing Reports, Video (YouTube, Vimeo etc.)

https://transit-finder.com/ flagged this transit a few days ago. I wasn't too confident that it would happen, as the ISS sometimes gets boosted or gets redirected at short notice to avoid space debris, but I thought I'd give it a shot anyway.

Everything turned out well - the ISS was there as predicted, and the weather-gods were on my side. The ZWO ASI174MC camera on the 80mm refractor scope captured 27s of full-frame (1936 x 1216 px) raw .avi data at 160 FPS. I reprocessed it 30fps and then hacked out this 10s clip which covers a mere 1.7843s of real-time. It's best viewed in full-screen at 1080p:

 

Observing Report 22nd October 2019 (Once in a Lucky Blue Moon)

Posted by on October 22nd 2019 in My vids, Observing Reports, Video (YouTube, Vimeo etc.)

Here you go - an ISS Lunar Transit from 22nd October 2019. Lucky because the weather has been, and is forecast to be, crap. Blue because it was a daytime transit.

ZWO ASI174MC on the C80ED-R refractor, 1936 x 1216 px raw .avi data at 160 FPS converted to 16 FPS. It's best viewed in full-screen at 1080p.

 

Observing Report 18th August 2019 (a better ISS Solar Transit)

Posted by on August 18th 2019 in My vids, Observing Reports, Video (YouTube, Vimeo etc.)

I thought that my recent unscheduled stay in hospital would mean missing this morning's ISS Solar Transit, but I was let out yesterday after only 10 days.

There were hardly any gaps in the cloud cover, but I got set up anyway. Luckily, a small gap appeared at just the right time and for just long enough to get the job done. The recently-acquired ZWO ASI174MC made light work of capturing full-frame (1936 x 1216 px) raw .avi data at 160 FPS.

Here's a clip, slowed to 4 FPS. It's best viewed in full-screen at 1080p.

 

And here's a cropped stack of the ISS. I think that it's a reasonable first effort:

 

Two shades of grey

Posted by on April 19th 2019 in In the garden, My vids, Video (YouTube, Vimeo etc.)
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Black(ish)bird:

Boing

Posted by on December 17th 2018 in In the garden, My vids, Video (YouTube, Vimeo etc.)
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Not quite a Flying Fox, but kudos for effort:

Regular visitor

Posted by on December 14th 2018 in In the garden, My vids, Video (YouTube, Vimeo etc.)
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One of two foxes that visit our garden almost every night: