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The International Space Station

On Monday April 4th, 2016, I was busy imaging Jupiter, when I noticed something bright out of the corner of my eye. It was the International Space Station!!!!

Quickly changing from Green to Lum filters, and selecting full sensor ( but annoyingly forgetting to turn off the crop ), I released the EQ clutches. Peeping through the finder scope, I tried to get the bright dot through the cross hairs; not an easy job when the image is reversed. Not having the sensor on crop to 180 pixels square would have helped, as I would have had 1280x960 pixels to catch the target on.

However, the ISS was caught on about two dozen frames, mostly blurred, but four were pretty good. This is one of them. For an unplanned, rushed capture, with all the wrong settings, I'm pretty pleased!

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