International Space Station

[striker55]

Tonight sighting, screenshot from the app

 

[BBL]

Tomorrow night's flyover should provide much higher elevation, nearly 80 degrees. Can't miss that one even if surrounded by trees, it will be pretty much overhead. I believe it start at 19:45.

 

[striker55]

Started looking again, a good flyover this morning. Clear sky, flew right over my house, was about a 5 minutes. When it's high in the sky it lasts a while.

 

[Wudidiz]

Here's a crappy shot with a 10" dobsonian. Chasing with the Telrad finder with iphone on eyepiece adaptor. It's a chase with ISS going in and out of view. Maybe get 15 images out of 100 shots and they aren't real great but you can tell what it is. Image is blown up from original.

 

[jmohme]

Here's a crappy shot with a 10" dobsonian. Chasing with the Telrad finder with iphone on eyepiece adaptor. It's a chase with ISS going in and out of view. Maybe get 15 images out of 100 shots and they aren't real great but you can tell what it is. Image is blown up from original.

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A phone on the eye piece of a manually guided Dob? I think it is an outstanding image!

 

[Wudidiz]

A phone on the eye piece of a manually guided Dob? I think it is an outstanding image!

Thanks. I'm gonna try it with my Nikon500 attached to the lens so that I can control shutter speed and maybe get a more clear photo. I use a remote shutter release with the iphone, but no speed control.

 

[striker55]

When I had a telescope I tried to get a shot with the moon behind it. Never worked for me.

 

[DoubleDuty]

I would love to have a telescope. I'm fascinated by the universe

 

[jmohme]

Thanks. I'm gonna try it with my Nikon500 attached to the lens so that I can control shutter speed and maybe get a more clear photo. I use a remote shutter release with the iphone, but no speed control.

I have a Meade LX200 gps and also a star tracker that I use with my Nikons, but id don't think that either one has a mode to track fast moving satellites, but one of the things on my photographic bucket list is capturing the transit of the ISS across the moons disc.
My new Z9 has an incredibly fast burst speed, I just need to have clear skies, and free time when the same time the transit occurs.

Maybe one day.

 

[striker55]

I would love to have a telescope. I'm fascinated by the universe

I had one and slowly my neighbors started adding security lights.

 

[DoubleDuty]

I had one and slowly my neighbors started adding security lights.

Of course

 

[Wudidiz]

I would love to have a telescope. I'm fascinated by the universe

A telescope is my primary source of enjoyment. You can get one pretty cheap these days (relatively speaking). I've been through alot of them and my favorite is a 10" dobsonian. Here's a photo of the one I use. I like viewing deep sky objects like galaxies, nebulae, globular star clusters,etc. A few days ago I looked at a quasar that is 2.5 billion lightyears away.

 

[striker55]

A telescope is my primary source of enjoyment. You can get one pretty cheap these days (relatively speaking). I've been through alot of them and my favorite is a 10" dobsonian. Here's a photo of the one I use. I like viewing deep sky objects like galaxies, nebulae, globular star clusters,etc. A few days ago I looked at a quasar that is 2.5 billion lightyears away.

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That's awesome, I had a nice inexpensive Celestron with computerizated controller. I could attach a Nikon camera which linked to a tablet. Had some nice pictures of Saturn and Jupiter with it's moons. Lost all my pictures when our computer died. It was a fun hobby. Nothing like your setup but fun.

 

[striker55]

Another sighting this morning, a little cloudy with break's in the clouds. It was bright enough that it shined behind the wispy clouds.

 

[striker55]

Tomorrow morning

 

[striker55]

Another sighting this morning, although clouds were moving fast I spotted it. One time I was showing my uncle and he said how do you know it's the ISS? Because its location and time reported by the app and we couldn't hear any planes at the time.

 

[BBL]

They broke the app on crApple iOS so I've been missing the flyovers. These cloudless skies are perfect time for observation.

 

[striker55]

Good sighting this morning, no clouds, long flight just to the west of my house.

 

[Mike_from_Texas]

Hmmmm I wonder what time it may have flown over North Texas last night?

Wife and I were in the pool at a bright object flew over just before dark. It stayed in view of a good 5 minutes.


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[striker55]

Hmmmm I wonder what time it may have flown over North Texas last night?

Wife and I were in the pool at a bright object flew over just before dark. It stayed in view of a good 5 minutes.


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I've been watching early morning, like around 5am. Another good one this morning, clear sky and it practically flew over my house. If it's directly overhead it's lasts about 5 minutes.