Got up early this morning to try and capture a bright pass of the ISS.

I was armed with a 400 2.8 IS "overclocked" with 5.6x worth of TCs.

Interesting. How did you locate that thing?

Not handheld ?

Great job Romy. I envy your place on the planet...

http://spaceweather.com/flybys/

ytwong wrote:
Interesting. How did you locate that thing?



I use this site. I input my coordinates and it gives me the schedule of passes for the next 10 days,

http://www.heavens-above.com/

PetKal wrote:
Not handheld ?


Wish I had your much lighter 400 IS II, Peter.


Sarsfield wrote:
Great job Romy. I envy your place on the planet...

Thanks.

What the h-- is ISS ??

Wow, how cool is that!

Wes N.

international space station

jaybird555 wrote:
What the h-- is ISS ??

Not very sure, but I guess it means Impossibly Small Subject.

I always have a tough time focusing on it, so I cheat by prefocusing on the moon, which is a much larger and slower target.

Here's how the moon looks this morning from our islands.

Canon 7D + 400 2.8 L IS + stacked Canon 2x and Sigma 2x TCs,
1600 mm, f/16, ISO 200, 1/30 sec, 475B/516 support.

I am in awe! Thanks for posting those incredible shots.

spdntrxi wrote:
international space station
Thanks!!

I love this shot! I have been wanting to shoot the moon, I unfortunately don't have a lens like that. Thank you for sharing"

Liquidstone wrote:
PetKal wrote:
Not handheld ?


Wish I had your much lighter 400 IS II, Peter.




That doesn't seem to matter, Romy, you do get spectacular shots with your MkI.

Very well done, Romy. It's just amazing
Hans

Thanks everyone for the comments!


PetKal wrote:
That doesn't seem to matter, Romy, you do get spectacular shots with your MkI.


Peter, having used both versions of the 400 2.8 IS, how would you compare the optics of the new vs the old? My old one is so unbelievably sharp that I see an increase in captured detail at moonshots up to a 4x TC. I'm curious if Canon was able to improve on the near optical perfection of the older one.

The Mk II version of the 400 would have brought out a lot more of the ISS feather details.

Db

Great images...but where are the space aliens

400km phew. I can see the sun and it's 150 000 000 km away

We don't need no stinkin' teleconverters gringo

Awesome shots Romy.