[Atmob-discuss] ISS image from Monday night

[Bern Kosicki]

At 12:04 AM 8/5/2008, John Boudreau wrote:
>Shortly after 9 tonight, we had a beautiful high pass of the ISS for those 
>lucky enough to have clear patches of sky at the time.
>
>Although I've captured the ISS and a few shuttles with smaller scopes--- a 
>larger FOV helps since I'm hand guiding these attempts using the 
>'hop-and-stop' method, tonight I was lucky enough to catch it with my C11 
>at it's f10 focus (about 2800mm) with a much better image scale than my 
>earlier images, using an Imaging Source DMK webcam:
>...---John Boudreau


John,

Congratulations for the great image.- your image is comparable to some AF 
pictures of satellites in orbit.

Some unclassified pictures of Columbia are here for 
reference  http://www.sts107.info/accident/AMOS/AMOS.htm

--but these are taken by 5.2 and 12 foot diameter telescopes - a lot bigger 
than your C11 !  - And from a better location on top of 10,000-foot 
Haleakala on Maui !  And with adaptive optics !


Bernie K