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Date: 07 Aug 2007 09:30:24
From: Trev Boyd
Subject: ISS Photos
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Hi All
Is it possible to take images of the ISS as it passes overhead?
Trev
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Date: 08 Aug 2007 11:00:32
From: Trev Boyd
Subject: Re: ISS Photos
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Hi All
Thanks to everyone who replied.
I perhaps should have been more specific when I asked my original question.
I don't have a telescope (yet!) so I am using a Canon 200mm f/2.8L lens on a
Canon 350D.
After many attempts over the past few days that all resulted in blurry blobs
of light, last night, I obtained the following pic:
http://www.trevboyd.com/images/content/ISS-2007-08-07-2155.jpg (1/160s,
f/3.5, ISO-1600)
It looks like it shows a set of solar arrays to the lower right, and the
remainder of the station to the upper left. Does anyone else think so, or
an I imaging it? I hope I'm not! :-)
I have seen other people online who have generated computer simulated images
of the ISS to match their photos to confirm details. Can anyone point me at
a site that will enable me to do the same?
Thanks in advance
Trev
"Trev Boyd" <nntp@boydtrev.com > wrote in message
news:f99aj6$fhi$1@aioe.org...
> Hi All
>
> Is it possible to take images of the ISS as it passes overhead?
>
>
> Trev
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Date: 08 Aug 2007 20:38:25
From: Thomas Womack
Subject: Re: ISS Photos
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In article <f9c488$muf$1@aioe.org >, Trev Boyd <nntp@boydtrev.com> wrote:
>Hi All
>
>Thanks to everyone who replied.
>
>I perhaps should have been more specific when I asked my original question.
>I don't have a telescope (yet!) so I am using a Canon 200mm f/2.8L lens on a
>Canon 350D.
>
>After many attempts over the past few days that all resulted in blurry blobs
>of light, last night, I obtained the following pic:
>
>http://www.trevboyd.com/images/content/ISS-2007-08-07-2155.jpg (1/160s,
>f/3.5, ISO-1600)
That looks fairly reasonable; I did
http://pics.livejournal.com/fivemack/pic/00013b4q
with a 170-500mm at full zoom, 1/125s at f/11 (no active
stabilisation), short exposure at high ISO, hand-held. The station
passes overhead really surprisingly quickly (so you have to have
everything set up right), and you've really only got 30 seconds or so
to point and keep shooting and hope that you get a shot where the
camera was still wrt the station for the milliseconds that the shutter
was open.
The hard part I found was focussing - I manually-focussed very
carefully on some distant streetlights with the camera on a tripod,
taking pictures then zooming in on the back of the camera to check the
streetlights were point-like. Auto-focus is useless for this, and on
none of my lenses does turning the focus ring until it stops get a
precise focus at infinity.
There are some good passes the next few evenings; I think with really
careful setup I ought to be able to distinguish the station and
Endeavour. Light cloud tonight is probably going to be a problem.
Tom
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Date: 09 Aug 2007 08:35:43
From: Trev Boyd
Subject: Re: ISS Photos
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"Thomas Womack" <twomack@chiark.greenend.org.uk > wrote in message
news:LHb*SBORr@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk...
> In article <f9c488$muf$1@aioe.org>, Trev Boyd <nntp@boydtrev.com> wrote:
>>Hi All
>>
>>Thanks to everyone who replied.
>>
>>I perhaps should have been more specific when I asked my original
>>question.
>>I don't have a telescope (yet!) so I am using a Canon 200mm f/2.8L lens on
>>a
>>Canon 350D.
>>
>>After many attempts over the past few days that all resulted in blurry
>>blobs
>>of light, last night, I obtained the following pic:
>>
>>http://www.trevboyd.com/images/content/ISS-2007-08-07-2155.jpg (1/160s,
>>f/3.5, ISO-1600)
>
> That looks fairly reasonable; I did
>
> http://pics.livejournal.com/fivemack/pic/00013b4q
>
> with a 170-500mm at full zoom, 1/125s at f/11 (no active
> stabilisation), short exposure at high ISO, hand-held. The station
> passes overhead really surprisingly quickly (so you have to have
> everything set up right), and you've really only got 30 seconds or so
> to point and keep shooting and hope that you get a shot where the
> camera was still wrt the station for the milliseconds that the shutter
> was open.
>
> The hard part I found was focussing - I manually-focussed very
> carefully on some distant streetlights with the camera on a tripod,
> taking pictures then zooming in on the back of the camera to check the
> streetlights were point-like. Auto-focus is useless for this, and on
> none of my lenses does turning the focus ring until it stops get a
> precise focus at infinity.
>
> There are some good passes the next few evenings; I think with really
> careful setup I ought to be able to distinguish the station and
> Endeavour. Light cloud tonight is probably going to be a problem.
>
> Tom
Tom,
Thanks for that - good to know that my photo actually is the ISS! I've
found that my camera will auto-focus fine on the station - maybe due to it's
shorter focal length. The best shots I've had so far are from the station
closer to the horizon as it moves away from me. I'm sure if I could get a
good shot of it overhead it would be better. Obviously at that point it's
much brighter, so I'm going to try increasing the shutter speed, which will
also minimise the problem caused by it moving at its fastest at that point.
I'm definitely going to try to get a pic of Endeavour docked over the next
few weeks.
Trev
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Date: 07 Aug 2007 20:14:27
From: bradtwr
Subject: Re: ISS Photos
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On Aug 7, 4:30 am, "Trev Boyd" <n...@boydtrev.com > wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Is it possible to take images of the ISS as it passes overhead?
>
> Trev
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> (re-order domain name to be my name to reply)
I just got my first ever image of the ISS last week and have posted it
on my blog.
http://bradtwr.blogspot.com/2007/08/first-iss-photo.html
Try a couple google searches. There are some people getting both
daytime and night time super detailed images of the ISS, and some of
them have web sites with lots of examples that make mine look
pitiful. But one has to start somewhere and I'm psyched.
Brad Swanson
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Date: 07 Aug 2007 16:45:56
From: Esmail
Subject: Re: ISS Photos
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bradtwr wrote:
> On Aug 7, 4:30 am, "Trev Boyd" <n...@boydtrev.com> wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> Is it possible to take images of the ISS as it passes overhead?
>
> I just got my first ever image of the ISS last week and have posted it
> on my blog.
<... >
> .... and I'm psyched.
> Brad Swanson
>
neat!
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Date: 07 Aug 2007 16:08:54
From: MiKe2
Subject: Re: ISS Photos
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"Trev Boyd" <nntp@boydtrev.com > wrote in message
news:f99aj6$fhi$1@aioe.org...
> Hi All
>
> Is it possible to take images of the ISS as it passes overhead?
yep.
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Date: 07 Aug 2007 08:42:47
From: Florian
Subject: Re: ISS Photos
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> Is it possible to take images of the ISS as it passes overhead?
Hi Trev,
You can also take shots of an ISS with a simple camera on a tripod...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fboyd/474152988/
I'm a Boyd too! ;-)
.Florian
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Date: 07 Aug 2007 10:05:07
From: Jim
Subject: Re: ISS Photos
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On 2007-08-07, Trev Boyd <nntp@boydtrev.com > wrote:
> Hi All
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> Is it possible to take images of the ISS as it passes overhead?
It is indeed:
<http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061014.html >
<http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap011012.html >
Jim
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