well done! On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> wrote:

Great shot, Jared. What was the scope and what the camera? Thanks, Joe

________________________________ From: Rodger C. Fry <rcfry@comcast.net> To: 'Utah Astronomy' <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 5:42 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] ISS Solar Transit

Jared, That is outstanding!

Thanks for sharing them.

Rodger Fry

-----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Jared Smith Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 5:40 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: [Utah-astronomy] ISS Solar Transit

I was able to capture an ISS solar transit along with some nice sunspots this morning. The clouds parted just moments before the transit time, which resulted in the image being a bit over-exposed. Still, it's nice to scratch another item off my astrophotography bucket list.

http://smithplanet.com/astro/solarsystem/solar/isstransit/ISSTransit.jpg

Full disc:

http://smithplanet.com/astro/solarsystem/solar/isstransit/ISSTransitFull.jpg

Jared

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You say "OK"? I think it is just outstanding!!! Steve

Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:23:11 -0600 From: jared@smithplanet.com To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] ISS Solar Transit

Thanks all.

The scope is an 8" Celestron Newtonian. The camera is a Canon T2i at prime focus. The CalSky predicted centerline of the transit went almost exactly over my house. I set the camera to burst mode (~3.7 frames per second) and started capturing exposures about 2 seconds before the indicated time for about 5 seconds. The first 3 exposures all captured the station (the transit only lasted .8 seconds), so my timing was off by a couple seconds. I'm glad I pulled the trigger early.

This was the sharpest and best-framed exposure. I'm shooting through Baader photographic (ND=3.8) film. There was a thick layer of clouds and the exposure was perfect (though pretty fuzzy) at 1/4000th second (the fastest shutter speed the camera will run), but the clouds thinned out just seconds before the transit and I didn't have time to stop things down a bit (I have various sizes of black construction paper I tape over the center of the solar filter). As such, the shot was overexposed a bit, but I think it turned out OK for my first try.

Jared

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> wrote:

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Great shot, Jared. What was the scope and what the camera? Thanks, Joe

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