Hello Space Station!

This photo was taken 1 day before the Soyuz launch failure up to the station, I hope I didn't jinx them! My setup was almost identical to my last time imaging the space station, though I had the camera on a faster burst mode. The hope was that if I got more images I could attempt to stack them. Since the perspective to the station changes so much you can't really stack, but if I get enough pictures fast enough I can hopefully stack a couple without too much of a problem. I also wrote a small python program to compensate for the camera rotation due to the elevation angle of the telescope changing.

The results were phenomenal:

ISS stack 5 - auto align 2

It's actually clear enough that we can label some of the station:

Labeled

I also stabilized the individual frames in PIPP and then used my software to de-rotate all the images into a single stabilized video of the station as it went overhead:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFQEFvSjjKA&w=560&h=315]