Nice Morris! I took one with my 5DM2 and 100-400mm lens sort of on a whim a few years ago and caught the shuttle docked to the station. I cropped in almost to pixel level and it's really blurry but with a little imagination, you can see the shuttle docked. Haven't been able to recreate the feat since though. Never could get it focused well enough to tell it was any more than a fuzzy star. It's actually quite a challenge! I still try this from time to time. I'll be glad to upload my shot here but I don't want to hijack the thread without permission.
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Nice Morris! I took one with my 5DM2 and 100-400mm lens sort of on a whim a few years ago and caught the shuttle docked to the station. I cropped in almost to pixel level and it's really blurry but with a little imagination, you can see the shuttle docked. Haven't been able to recreate the feat since though. Never could get it focused well enough to tell it was any more than a fuzzy star. It's actually quite a challenge! I still try this from time to time. I'll be glad to upload my shot here but I don't want to hijack the thread without permission....Show more →
Hi Richard,
I'd love to see the image you captured. I've seen some stunners with longer lenses than we have.
Let me post two shots here. The first one is zoomed using Adobe Bridge to 400% and saved. The second one is zoomed until you can start to see pixelation.
I've had a Canon 7D for almost a year now which will increase my zoom factor with my lens. Unfortunately, everything I've taken with it needed to be tossed. The ones I posted here are simply beginners luck! (I wish I was a beginner again )
I saw that before Morris. It was pretty impressive then and it still is now. Wish I had the setup that could do that. I have an early Celestron 8" telescope that will take a camera and has auto guide functions; I can't upload satellite information though to track them. Besides, the gearing inside the guide mechanism isn't accurate enough to allow long exposures of stars either so it's quite a disappointment. I may go ahead and try to sell it to someone as a good "beginner" scope - it tracks well enough for visual observations and has a goto function that makes finding objects fairly easy.
I have a friend (not nearby though) who has a telescope that will accept satellite tracking data and has got some fairly descent pictures of the ISS and shuttle before. Don't know where he's hidden them on the internet though so I can't point you to them right now. Oh well...time to get out and practice again, once the clouds go away!
