Posts tagged 'ISS Lunar Transit'

Observing Report 30th January 2023 (ISS Lunar Transit)

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