ISS

First attempt at imaging the ISS closeup as it passes overhead. It's much harder than it looks (and it already looked pretty hard before I attemped it!). 20:40 this evening from Orpington. Meade 8" LX90 with Celestron NexImage solar system imager. Pre-focused on Jupiter and under-exposed for Jupiter (not quite enough). Clutches off, manually chasing the ISS in the finderscope. Just under 5 minutes of video captured at 20fps. Total of 5,875 frames. Processed in PIPP ISS mode to find the ISS and discard the other frames. Only 7 frames contained the ISS and only one of those was close to usable (this one). Clearly over-exposed in places and possibly slightly out of focus. But I got it!! Chuffed to bits!