This morning I attempted to capture a transit of the ISS across the face of Jupiter. The seeing was not good and although I was on the predicted (by CalSky) transit path, the actual path missed me by about 300 meters to the east.
The entire transit happens in 1/25 second. I fear I\'m not up to the task of triggering the shutter with this amount of precision so I decided to try and capture it on video.
I used a 600D with a C8 telescope (f/8, 1600mm) for the lens. The video settings were 1920x1080 @ 30 FPS, 3x digital zoom, ISO 3200, 1/1600 second.
Here is a frame from the video with the ISS at it\'s closest approach.
To get an idea of the speed of the ISS, the entire 8 second video (46 MB) can be downloaded from this webpage. http://sdrv.ms/W7nIpl
The ISS crosses the frame at about the 6 second mark in the video.
-Jerry
Nov 14, 2012 at 10:42 AM
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