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ISS Transit (2000mm / .gif), Brent Newton

ISS Transit (2000mm / .gif)

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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A manually tracked ISS Transit over Wichita, KS from April 10, 2018 at 21:15. I originally looked in Stellarium for bright stars which the ISS would be passing through, but when it was slightly off of the first star I resorted to manually tracking it. Being high overhead, I was mostly chasing it with Altitude adjustments, but Azimuth also needed periodic adjustment.

In the end I found the exposure was too long - the crew compartments are blown out and it was moving so fast the chip couldn't write it fast enough to avoid the warping effect seen in many of the frames. Still, a darn good first try, especially at 2000mm FL

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