fireburner80 OP t1_jb2tosl wrote on March 6, 2023 at 12:23 AM

Reply to comment by JaxBigSexy in Tiangong CSS transiting the moon on 3/4/23 viewed from southern Wisconsin. by fireburner80

I'll make it's Winnie the Pooh shaped, too!

fireburner80 OP t1_jb2tahb wrote on March 6, 2023 at 12:20 AM

Reply to comment by JaxBigSexy in Tiangong CSS transiting the moon on 3/4/23 viewed from southern Wisconsin. by fireburner80

I'll make sure to get a balloon in the next one. I'll fill a party balloon with helium and hope it transits as the same time as the station!

Will that suffice?

fireburner80 OP t1_jb2odw4 wrote on March 5, 2023 at 11:42 PM

Reply to comment by _insertsfunnyname_ in Tiangong CSS transiting the moon on 3/4/23 viewed from southern Wisconsin. by fireburner80

Thanks. I am, and I don't want to spend the money and time that I know other people do.

I feel a lot better when I see them mention that they combined 100 exposures of 2 minutes a piece and I'm left thinking "I'm ok with my 10 minutes out in the cold and getting a decent image."

fireburner80 OP t1_jb1yq67 wrote on March 5, 2023 at 8:38 PM

Reply to Tiangong CSS transiting the moon on 3/4/23 viewed from southern Wisconsin. by fireburner80

I took this sequence of images at 23:52:52 over the course of about half a second.

The images were stacked using paint.net. Each frame was aligned and used to darken the layer below since the space station is effectively black compared to the moon.

Telescope: Celestron 6SE

Camera: Nikon D3300

ISO: 1600

Shutter: 1/4000 s

I saw that someone else had a significantly better transit from a different location on the same date, but I'm still pleased with what I was able to capture. My setup is about half the size of his and this was my first attempt at using my telescope to capture the CSS. I hope you enjoy!