ISS Transit on May 10th

Blogged by Aurélie Le Fort Beunink on July 4, 2011 and tagged with Sample Images, Sun, Transit, Animation.

A friend of mine invited me to observe the ISS transiting the solar disk on 10th May from a parking lot in Budapest. The clouds were passing constantly but we were lucky and could capture the event.

The image attached was taken with a William Optics Megrez 72/432 refractor, a Herschel's prism (with ND1.8 filter) and of course your excellent DMK 41AU02.AS camera. Exposure time was 1/8000 sec. The image was processed in Registax and Gimp.

Please, click on the following image to see the animation:

Thanks to Péter Molnar (Budapest, Hungary) and his friend for this amazing animation!

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