The International Space Station Transit
Jan 24, 2018 21:31:33 #
Shot it with the Celestron 5" SCT and Celestron focal reducer..
Imaging was with the Celestron 236M CMOS camera at 55 FPS.
I started imaging 1 minute before transit and ran it for 2.5 minutes.
I thought I had missed it. I did not see it cross my screen during filming.
I managed to capture 11 frames of ISS transit which is fairly good for a transit that lasted .5 seconds.
I pulled this frame and tweaked it in Photoshop CC and it's fairly good or at least a start.
Enjoy,
Jim
PS Video can be found here.
http://flic.kr/p/JPq2At
Imaging was with the Celestron 236M CMOS camera at 55 FPS.
I started imaging 1 minute before transit and ran it for 2.5 minutes.
I thought I had missed it. I did not see it cross my screen during filming.
I managed to capture 11 frames of ISS transit which is fairly good for a transit that lasted .5 seconds.
I pulled this frame and tweaked it in Photoshop CC and it's fairly good or at least a start.
Enjoy,
Jim
PS Video can be found here.
http://flic.kr/p/JPq2At
Jan 24, 2018 21:35:51 #
Jan 24, 2018 23:16:12 #
Albuqshutterbug wrote:
Shot it with the Celestron 5" SCT and Celestr... (show quote)
Way to go!!!
Raining here
Jan 24, 2018 23:49:41 #
Jan 25, 2018 08:05:11 #
Jan 25, 2018 13:18:28 #
Wow! Zoom in the video.
So glad the project worked for you Jim.
Can you make a slower, time lapse with your 11 images?
Very cool capture!
Congratulations!
So glad the project worked for you Jim.
Can you make a slower, time lapse with your 11 images?
Very cool capture!
Congratulations!
Jan 25, 2018 13:44:03 #
Cool fact about the ISS:
The International Space Station travels in orbit around Earth at a speed of roughly 17,150 miles per hour (that's about 5 miles per second!). This means that the Space Station orbits Earth (and sees a sunrise) once every 92 minutes!
:)
The International Space Station travels in orbit around Earth at a speed of roughly 17,150 miles per hour (that's about 5 miles per second!). This means that the Space Station orbits Earth (and sees a sunrise) once every 92 minutes!
:)
Jan 25, 2018 14:30:28 #
Albuqshutterbug wrote:
Shot it with the Celestron 5" SCT and Celestr... (show quote)
Good planning and result!
bwa
Jan 25, 2018 18:19:45 #
chaman wrote:
Holy crap thats fast! Cool!
Thank you very much.
I posted a couple of speeds on my Flicker account that I linked to but may remove them and just have the video without the photos at the end.
I am finding it more annoying than helpful.
Total time to cross the Moon was .65 seconds since it is only a quarter moon.
That means it would take just over a second to cross a full moon.
I need to work on a way to image more moon faster. Shooting at 50 FPS didn't work at that well for me.
I would like to hit 120 or greater, but I would have to use a small scope to be able to use a lower resolution for the speed and then lose detail.
Trade offs.
Jim
Jan 25, 2018 18:21:17 #
JimH123 wrote:
Way to go!!!
Raining here
Raining here
Thanks Jim.
I am finally having a decent stretch of clear skies.
I'm sure they will find you as well.
Jim
Jan 25, 2018 18:21:49 #
Jan 25, 2018 18:23:42 #
ggttc wrote:
Wow!
Thank you,
Just a matter of planning and setting up with clear skies.
I watched it come across from the South and tried to watch it cross on my laptop screen.
Too fast to see and I thought I had missed it until I played back the video.
Jim
Jan 25, 2018 18:25:05 #
SonnyE wrote:
Wow! Zoom in the video.
So glad the project worked for you Jim.
Can you make a slower, time lapse with your 11 images?
Very cool capture!
Congratulations!
So glad the project worked for you Jim.
Can you make a slower, time lapse with your 11 images?
Very cool capture!
Congratulations!
Thanks Sonny,
Did you look at the 1/8th speed video? It makes it easy to see along with my jumps in video acquisition.
Jim
Jan 25, 2018 18:26:07 #
bwana wrote:
Good planning and result!
bwa
bwa
Thank you very much.
It was a pretty nice feeling to do something right.
Jim
Jan 25, 2018 19:44:01 #
Albuqshutterbug wrote:
Thanks Sonny,
Did you look at the 1/8th speed video? It makes it easy to see along with my jumps in video acquisition.
Jim
Did you look at the 1/8th speed video? It makes it easy to see along with my jumps in video acquisition.
Jim
No, only the link you posted.
But by grabbing the slider, I can step it through in the 3 second range and get individual frames.
But they are all within that 3 second area.
Glad the project came out so very well!
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