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ISS - International Space Station

 

 

 

Configuration after STS 124 May-June 2008 (NASA Image)

Imaged at highest point,
72 degrees altitude

Imaged at about
35 degrees altitude

Prediction of the event from Heavens-Above

Sky condition was still twilight with lots of patchy and thin cloud.
 

Image Info

- 11 September 2008
- 20 cm f/4
- GSTAR camera set to
  0x sense up
  No gain
  Shutter 12000th second


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The ISS was moving so fast that I had a lot of trouble manually tracking it. I did not see it on the monitor at all during recording and I thought I had missed it.

Only when stepping through the video file later did I see it flash past a couple of times on just a few frames.

Jupiter, for comparison, was imaged at the same scale and settings.
Diameter = 41.8 arc seconds, brightness = -2.4 magnitude.
The moons were exposed a bit longer.

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