So, the weather is being funky for me, and if there looks to be any clouds, why bother?
But the last quarter is now history, and February is going to be a 'moonless', or dark month. (Meaning no full Moon, in plain Engrish)
Of course the Moon is up there, but prime for trying to image deep sky objects. As long as the weather works out.
So, of course, I'm out and about, sharpening my talons, to suck the light out of hapless wonders drifting by in silence.
Orion is about to vanish for this winter season, and rise for others to enjoy (I think) in the Southern hemisphere.

Catch as catch can...
Several of the 2-6-18's are low in the N/W skies here. As they climb for the Spring/Summer viewing I hope to gather better images.
I did a 'Factory Reset' on 2-3-18 and got the AVX back on track again. I'm getting better at telling when it needs it to clear out the garr~bag`e it gets in it's head.
Last night, doing the entire remote alignment from inside, using the guiding and Infinity cameras as my 'eyepieces'. I now use the Infinity as my alignment camera, and my guide camera as a coarse aim view.

A while back now, I decided to try extending the legs on my AVX to get as much horizon as I could to work with, in spite of overwhelming 'shorter is stabler' advice around the web. That has been working very well for me, not that I have much horizon anyway being surrounded by Suburbia and lots of light pollution. But it got me up to the edge of the well, instead of down in a hole do to my various obstructions.
Always learning, always refining, always thinking. Just keep swimming, yeah Jim.

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

Took a few days of holiday to Banff to celebrate my birthday. Came home to 15" of snow everywhere! Spent three hours plowing driveways and yard. Got up this morning to another 4" of the white stuff. My redneck hot tub is full of snow. My observatory is buried. The greenhouse is frozen. Will it ever end!!??

Patiently waiting (and waiting and ...) for our couple of days of summer. Last year it was during the 2nd week of August.

bwa