My First ISS Solar Transit

My apologies for the mediocre image quality, but I am happy that I managed to get everything else (location and time) correct. This is actually my first attempt at an ISS Solar Transit. I have tried 3 Lunar transits - two were clouded out and on the third attempt I got the timing wrong.

My biggest mistake today was leaving my solar filter at home. What a horrible feeling that was. I decided to use a 10 stop ND filter and risk equipment damage (even though I preached against this over the weekend on a B&H product Q&A page).

It wasn't a close pass, as the station was about 900km from me (somewhere around 20-30 degrees). I used a 7D and 100-400 with a Kenko 2x. I don't think I gain any benefit from the 2x and probably should just use the 100-400 and crop more. Focusing would be easier too. I'm sure the image also suffered from the fact that I shot at f/40 (ISO 100, SS 1/8000).


Anyway, here's a link to the GIF I created with the photos. Like I said, I realize the quality isn't on par with the great stuff on this forum, but I just wanted to share my minor victory.

C&C welcome and thanks for looking!

http://gifmaker.me …wK&file=output_​xv6ekc.gif

I fully understand your excitement.
That's too cool for school !!
Well done.

Nice capture , congratulations .

Great job, well executed.

nice one .... you should be well pleased, there are probably not too many that have achieved that!
thanks for sharing
tis something that is on my "bucket list"

Dave

Thanks, everyone! Looking forward to getting another opportunity.

Wow... you nailed that centerline... great job! Am I counting 9 frames? If so that would make it a crazy long ~1.1s transit right? That's the good thing about the far away passes. Last one I had was at 51.8° and it was only 0.77s at the centerline.


What were you using to trigger the shutter?

Aaron

harrisa wrote in post #17375226
Wow... you nailed that centerline... great job! Am I counting 9 frames? If so that would make it a crazy long ~1.1s transit right? That's the good thing about the far away passes. Last one I had was at 51.8° and it was only 0.77s at the centerline.


What were you using to trigger the shutter?

Aaron

Thanks. Yes, I was right on the centerline. I think the transit was 1.2 seconds. It's cool that you figured that out by looking at the frames!

I used a wired remote to trigger the shutter. I have a pretty cheap tripod. You can see how much the camera shook.

I think this is very impressive Wedge.