Thank you all for your kind comments! :-)
Please believe me, this image which is my best after almost two years of efforts and six months with the C14, is horrible if you compare it with a truly talented Israeli Astrophotographer, whose photos of the ISS I saw for the first time two days ago. Crystal clear in really High Definition! Jaw dropping.
I realy want to know more about his revolutionary techniques.
Radon86 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 10, 2022 12:34 pm
Unbelievable !
How did you track such a fast object like the ISS with a C14 telescope ? I even find it hard to track it with mine own 2 eyes sometimes !!!
Magnus
Hi Magnus. Initially, I was tracking the ISS manually, including with the C14. Unbelievable? I thought the same until I tried... I just had to make it pass from the center of the finder as many times as I could during its passage. This is a successful method because at 160 FPS, you get some tens of frames each time, enough to stack them and get an acceptable image.
However, there is a much better method: try to track it with your mount. There is an amazing dedicated software (SkyTrack) from a very kind person, that can track satellites. Another kind fellow here in solarchat, let me know about it half a year ago. With a smaller aperture, everything goes quite easily and smoothly. With the C14 it is much more difficult and needs "training" and ideas (e.g. use a gamepad and perhaps a laser beam) to succeed to bring the ISS in your frame and keep it there, while tracking it. I succeeded to do so just two weeks ago. Before I had only short passes from my sensor's frame. It took quite some trials and errors... ;-)
Now that I have the technique, I just wait for the next passes hoping that one them will be during good seeing to get better results.
Best wishes,
Alexandros
2022-10-05, ISS Animation, C14 Edge, IR 742, ASI 290, 17_01 UTC by H- Alpha, on Flickr
2022-10-05, ISS, C14 Edge, IR 742, ASI 290, 17_03 UTC by H- Alpha, on Flickr
2022-10-05, ISS, C14 Edge, IR 742, ASI 290, 17_02 UTC by H- Alpha, on Flickr
