Astronomy Live | SpaceX DM-2 Endeavour Docked to ISS! @Astronomy_Live | Uploaded June 2020 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Music: Endeavour by Stellardrone
Footage from 6-22-2020 and 6-23-2020 with an 8" Meade LX200 Classic and Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 4K. The footage from 6-22-2020 was the first time I attempted to use the Pocket Cinema for filming any satellites and I am still learning the camera. For 6-23 I made things a lot easier by eliminating the 2x barlow lens, making the setup photographically faster. Notice the flare off of the solar panels on Progress 74 during the footage from 6-23-2020.
I will make another attempt with the barlow lens in the future; the key is to get a stable lock on ISS early on to give myself time to tweak the focus and adjust for mirror flop. This wasn't possible on 6-22 due to the pass occurring at sunrise, thus ISS was obscured by morning light in the viewfinder camera until it was about 30 degrees high. Ultimately the lock was lost due to white clouds near the white dot of ISS. Evening passes allow ISS to stand out much more on the viewfinder video, giving a better lock on target in my software. Both videos were tracked using my open source SatTraker software:
github.com/AstronomyLiveYt/SatTraker
Music: Endeavour by Stellardrone
Footage from 6-22-2020 and 6-23-2020 with an 8" Meade LX200 Classic and Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 4K. The footage from 6-22-2020 was the first time I attempted to use the Pocket Cinema for filming any satellites and I am still learning the camera. For 6-23 I made things a lot easier by eliminating the 2x barlow lens, making the setup photographically faster. Notice the flare off of the solar panels on Progress 74 during the footage from 6-23-2020.
I will make another attempt with the barlow lens in the future; the key is to get a stable lock on ISS early on to give myself time to tweak the focus and adjust for mirror flop. This wasn't possible on 6-22 due to the pass occurring at sunrise, thus ISS was obscured by morning light in the viewfinder camera until it was about 30 degrees high. Ultimately the lock was lost due to white clouds near the white dot of ISS. Evening passes allow ISS to stand out much more on the viewfinder video, giving a better lock on target in my software. Both videos were tracked using my open source SatTraker software:
github.com/AstronomyLiveYt/SatTraker
