Monday 28 January 2013
Hot Days
Couple shots from tonight's ISS pass, once again the 40c temps make atmosphere horrible, going to be like this for next week at least :/
Saturday 26 January 2013
Space Blob
Captured the ISS again tonight, was only a early and low pass which combined with the hot heat of the day made for some really terrible seeing conditions. I used the diagonal this time not that I needed to worry about that this time as the pass only reached 30 odd degrees. Think I bumped the focus out too but it hard to tell with the horrible atmosphere. I did actually enter the ISS telemetry details into the scope to try the and use it to track the station but it didn't even recognize there was even a pass tonight so that was useless. Both images are unprocessed frames from the video, I dropped the magnification down and stepped up the frame rate of the capture.
Friday 25 January 2013
ISS pass
Had a really nice pass of the ISS tonight and my attempted to capture it and failed :/
I thought I'd try using the LX90 with the Baader zoom and a GSO 2" 2X Barlow with the 600D straight through without a diagonal. Bad idea! I couldn't reach zenith which was the brightest part of the pass due to the image train hitting the forks, lesson well and truly learned. Still managed to capture some frames but they all seemed very blurry, obviously trying to manually track the station will produce mostly smudges but the relatively still frames were out of focus, I used the moon to setup the focus as par the last time but it just not right. Using Jupiter to set the exposure worked quite well tho. Oh well, back to the drawing board. My first attempt back in September sure was a case of beginners luck!
I thought I'd try using the LX90 with the Baader zoom and a GSO 2" 2X Barlow with the 600D straight through without a diagonal. Bad idea! I couldn't reach zenith which was the brightest part of the pass due to the image train hitting the forks, lesson well and truly learned. Still managed to capture some frames but they all seemed very blurry, obviously trying to manually track the station will produce mostly smudges but the relatively still frames were out of focus, I used the moon to setup the focus as par the last time but it just not right. Using Jupiter to set the exposure worked quite well tho. Oh well, back to the drawing board. My first attempt back in September sure was a case of beginners luck!
Heads up!
There is a very bright pass of the ISS tonight at 20:41 from the SW reaching -3.3 Mag!!!
I hope to get a good image of it, below is the first image I took of the ISS a few months back.
I hope to get a good image of it, below is the first image I took of the ISS a few months back.
Back to it!
After a long hiatus I have returned to making the blog and will endeavor to post regularly.
Thanks to Jason from everythinggeraldton.com for getting me motivated to do more with the blog!
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Thanks to Jason from everythinggeraldton.com for getting me motivated to do more with the blog!
If you don't know about everythinggeraldton.com then you really need to check it out, it's a great one stop shop for everything Geraldton and with a very cool app for both IOS and Android it not only convenient but packed full of features right at your finger tips.
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