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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:

 

Quick Pic – 10th-13th August 2022 (Perseid meteors)

Posted by on August 14th 2022 in Astrostuff, Observing Reports, Pics

Here's a rough-and-ready shot of one of the Perseids caught on camera during the current shower.

 

 

Observing Report 17th-18th January 2022 (Wolf Moon)

Posted by on January 20th 2022 in Astrostuff, Observing Reports, Pics

The first observing session of the year, the first full moon of the year, the first coloured moon pic of the year:

Wolf Moon (17/01/2022)

Observing Report 13th-14th December 2020* (Geminid meteors)

Posted by on January 2nd 2021 in Observing Reports
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Confined to base but not to barracks, so spent a few nights in the obsy during the Geminid meteor shower.

Here's a composite of meteors snapped on the morning of the 14th.

Click the pic to see a bigger version.

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 19th-20th September 2019 (Moon RC+ASI174MC – Take #2)

Posted by on October 1st 2019 in Astrostuff, Observing Reports

Well, there's little point in having a colour camera but posting lowly b&w pics. Same data as before, but a different processing method.

Again, feel free to click it to go large.

 

Note to self: ZWO ASI174MC on RC6, undebayered raw in FC, debayer RGGB VNG in FCdeb, satsx6 in vdub, K3x1, Reg5, PS merge RGB and  L.