89 Degree Space Station Pass

Tonight the clouds finally played nicely and I had a beautifully clear sky for an 89 degree pass of the space station. I got beautiful pictures of the whole pass, though I missed about 30 seconds at zenith as I had to re-orient my telescope. Dobsonians aren't great at zenith sadly.

All pictures are 1/1600 sec shutter taken at 5000 ISO with my 10" newtonian telescope with the Fuji XA2 mirrorless camera and 2x barlow lens. Camera is set on 5 frames per second and I do my best tracking and taking photos. All pictures are then cropped and aligned by the software PIPP.

In this picture the solar panels are too angled to show up in the photo. The bright line is the pressurized section of the station, lower is Russian, upper is US + Europe + Japan. The fainter horizontal line is the truss of the station.

A few moments later after it went overhead I was able to get a more full-on perspective of the station.

This image is much more blurred, and I think the radiator panels caught a bit too much light and made a bright blob in the middle of the station. Either way, the solar panels are much more visible in this image.

When you combine all the pictures together into a video it looks pretty good, though you can see the obvious gap in the pictures from when I had to re-adjust the telescope as the station went directly overhead.

https://youtu.be/ndruyjTfgRs

Right now on board that station are: