Observation by Steve Knight: iPhone image of an ISS lunar transit

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Steve Knight

Observer

Steve Knight

Observed

2017 Jan 14 - 13:01

Uploaded

2017 Jan 14 - 13:12

Objects

The Moon
Spacecraft

Equipment

Starwave 70ED f6 refractor
iPhone SE
Astrotrac
Tripod

Exposure

iPhone SE video in slow motion mode (120fps)

Location

Newbury

Target name

Moon + International Space Station

Title

iPhone image of an ISS lunar transit

About this image

Not strictly speaking astronomy but I enjoy the challenge of capturing these. This was at 2.40am and it lasted 0.7 sec. Because of the speed I decided to try afocal imaging, eyepiece was 17mm. Telescope set up on a standard camera tripod with an Astrotrac. The 84 frames were extracted from the video using PIPP and stacked using Starstax, then processed in Faststone.

Files associated with this observation

StarStaX_IMG_3579_f001-IMG_3579_f265_darken faststoned.jpg (45.9 kB)

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Comments

Dominic Ford, 2017 Jan 16 - 21:42 UTC

I gather from Facebook you drove 120 miles especially to take this image. That's pretty impressive dedication!

Steve Knight, 2017 Mar 14 - 19:39 UTC

Thanks Dominic! Dedication? My wife as another word for it! Insanity!

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