International Space Station Solar Transit (Reprocess) 06/06/19
REPROCESSED 13th JUNE 2019
I'm delighted to share my first attempt at capturing a transit of the Sun by the International Space Station!
The transit was visible from Oxfordshire, and took place at 5:23pm BST on Thursday 6th June. The whole event lasted just 1.3 seconds!
Telescope: William Optics 70mm refractor fitted with Thousand Oaks glass solar filter
Mount: EQ5 Pro on a permanent pier, tracking at solar speed
Camera: ZWO ASI120MC camera
2,000 frame video captured with SharpCap Pro, started 12 seconds before the predicted transit time. Video was debayered, then run through PIPP to extract the 31 frames which had the ISS in shot. Those frames were then stacked using StarStaX, processed in Lightroom, Registax 6, Photoshop CS2, Fast Stone Image Viewer and Focus Magic.
To see my video blog capturing this event, visit:
Or on You Tube:
International Space Station Solar Transit (Reprocess) 06/06/19
REPROCESSED 13th JUNE 2019
I'm delighted to share my first attempt at capturing a transit of the Sun by the International Space Station!
The transit was visible from Oxfordshire, and took place at 5:23pm BST on Thursday 6th June. The whole event lasted just 1.3 seconds!
Telescope: William Optics 70mm refractor fitted with Thousand Oaks glass solar filter
Mount: EQ5 Pro on a permanent pier, tracking at solar speed
Camera: ZWO ASI120MC camera
2,000 frame video captured with SharpCap Pro, started 12 seconds before the predicted transit time. Video was debayered, then run through PIPP to extract the 31 frames which had the ISS in shot. Those frames were then stacked using StarStaX, processed in Lightroom, Registax 6, Photoshop CS2, Fast Stone Image Viewer and Focus Magic.
To see my video blog capturing this event, visit:
Or on You Tube: