Capturing the ISS
September 17th, 2009
Continuing my exploration of webcam astrophotography I have had a couple of goes at capturing the ISS as it has been very bright for us in south east England over the last few nights. The best efforts came from last night.
Some good detail captured there, so I’m happy with that! The equipment and settings used are as follows :
- Orion Optics Europa 250mm Reflector
- Manually guided on the Vixen Sphinx mount
- Philips SPC900NC webcam (Exp 1/2500 – Gain 40 – Bright 60)
I captured around 2000 frames of which about 50 contained the target, any sequential runs of four or more were exported and stacked in Registax. I applied a gentle wavelets filter to bring out the detail, then a very soft gaussian blur to clean them up.
Tonight I may go completely mad and try it with the 2x barlow!
