Great Amateur ISS Image
March 26th, 2009
There is a great image over on Discover Magazine taken by Ralf Vandebergh of the ISS with the shuttle docked. The ISS has been over head the last few nights and this image shows what can be achieved using modest equipment a steady hand to guide your scope and a lot of experience!
As for myself, I had a go at it on Monday night, unfortunately being my first attempt it failed to produce anything worth while, however I learnt a few things. Mostly that I didn’t have enough magnification and my exposure was set to short.
For anyone using a Canon camera which supports live view who wants to be able to capture video to use in registax, the same methods used for webcam astrophotography, take a look at this nifty bit of software. It will let you capture the live view output as an AVI, very handy for planetary work and for trying your hand on the ISS.
