Observation by Mike Scarisbrick: By Jove, it's the International Space St...

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Mike Scarisbrick

Observer

Mike Scarisbrick

Observed

2017 May 26 - 20:23

Uploaded

2017 May 28 - 16:28

Objects

Jupiter
Spacecraft

Equipment

200mm f/5 Newtonian
HEQ5 mount
Atik GP camera

Exposure

0.5 ms, 400 frames

Location

Cambridgeshire UK.

Target name

ISS

Title

By Jove, it's the International Space Station

About this image

I couldn't resist trying to image this 'conjunction'.

Jupiter and it's satellites are a Registax6 processed image of the full 400 frame movie. I then just merged back in the 6 frames in which the ISS was visible.

It turns out 0.2ms would have been a better exposure choice :(

Files associated with this observation

byJove_20170526.jpg (149.0 kB)

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Comments

Dawson, 2017 May 29 - 06:09 UTC

Mike, this is a cracking image. Impressive planning and execution.

Mike Scarisbrick, 2017 May 30 - 07:12 UTC

Thank you James,

Given the relatively small sensor size of the Atik GP, I did have fingers crossed a bit. The predicted path of the satellite gleaned from Stellarium was pretty well spot on though.

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