Photographing the ISS with my 8" dobs - Attempt 1

Tried photographig the ISS with my telescope today(and failed).

Few lessons from today’s attempt:

  • Need to stop moving the telescope around to keep the station in the FOV. It’s better to leave it drift so that there’s no trailing caused by the telescope movement - this is evident in the frames in the video…the only ones that are clear are the ones at the edge of the FOV when I stopped tracking.
  • Need to bump up the gain a lot more and reduce the exposure time.

Some decent frames from today:





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This is awesome!

Is it possible to capture any geostationary satellites?