ISS and STS-129 flyby through telescope

Here's The International Space Station and Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-129 Mission.
Just after the Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver, half an hour before docking.

Air transparency was poor, hence the noise.
Photo details:
1/320s ISO200
Panasonic DMC-FZ8 camera on a hand-guided Orion SkyQuest XT8 telescope

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• international
• space
• station
• shuttle
• atlantis
• sts-129
• nasa
• docking
• flyby
• telelescope

[ParaglidingManiac]

How did you manage to "catch" it with your telescope?

[McWgogs]

@ParaglidingManiac just point the scope where the iss is ;p

[ParaglidingManiac]

@McWgogs,

It's getting too freakin' shaky :) no seriously. how did you film this?

[McWgogs]

@ParaglidingManiac hand tracked with the finder scope, while the attached camera was shooting 2fps, it's not a movie, it's a series of photos,

[ParaglidingManiac]

How id you succeed in tracking the ISS so perfectly? All I have in mind, is manual tracking using the finder scope.

[McWgogs]

@ParaglidingManiac Yes manual finder scope, and it's not that perfect, The whole frame is 7 megapixels with a tiny ISS on maybe 75% of the 250 photos at random positions, so i'm using RegiStax5 to center each photo on the station (alignment option 'align using centre of gravity').

[johnschaser]

great shot, thats the way to do it, hand guided all the way!

[McWgogs]

@ParaglidingManiac yup, it's quite easy after some practice.

[ParaglidingManiac]

S*it, if SkyQuest XT8 did this, than my 114/900 reflector should do something similar.