ISS through the clouds

ISS shots always astound me. I really like your take on it, the stars and the clouds, very cool. I wouldn't even know where to start to try and capture it, I guess there must be some website where you can find out when it passes over?

Nice work. Looks like it wasn't even night time when you took these? just after sunset perhaps?
 
Carlh said:
ISS shots always astound me. I really like your take on it, the stars and the clouds, very cool. I wouldn't even know where to start to try and capture it, I guess there must be some website where you can find out when it passes over?

Nice work. Looks like it wasn't even night time when you took these? just after sunset perhaps?
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Have a look on here http://www.meteorwatch.org Carl. They show meteors and ISS passes etc. to be honest it's not as hard as you think to photograph it. The website tells you what direction it comes above the horizon from and then it's all about having the camera set up to take some long exposures. Tripod, shutter release, patience and you should get there. Try also taking a few say 15 - 30 sec exposures and then merge into one photo to give a long trail. And also a good poi makes the photo even better.

Depending on the length of lens you have you can even get a pretty good close up image of the ISS as I have done before. I used my 150 - 500mm some major cropping and managed to come away with a shot that looked like something from star wars.
 
Proud2btaff said:
Have a look on here http://www.meteorwatch.org Carl. They show meteors and ISS passes etc. to be honest it's not as hard as you think to photograph it. The website tells you what direction it comes above the horizon from and then it's all about having the camera set up to take some long exposures. Tripod, shutter release, patience and you should get there. Try also taking a few say 15 - 30 sec exposures and then merge into one photo to give a long trail. And also a good poi makes the photo even better.

Depending on the length of lens you have you can even get a pretty good close up image of the ISS as I have done before. I used my 150 - 500mm some major cropping and managed to come away with a shot that looked like something from star wars.
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Cheers for that Darren, might have a go just to see if I can spot it with the naked eye first, if I can stay up late enough :)
 
Carlh said:
Cheers for that Darren, might have a go just to see if I can spot it with the naked eye first, if I can stay up late enough :)
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You don't have to stay up late too see it. I think it's next over the uk in June in the evenings but you can see it in the day when it's over the uk too, all be it a bit harder to spot than the night. Have a look at an app called ISS spotter if you have an iPhone or there are other different apps I would imagine that give you the details of passes and tell you how bright etc they are.
 
Being a tight arse, I only use free apps - on my Windows phone, I use ISS tracker, on my Win8 netbook and tablet I have Space Station Finder and on my Android I have something I found using the search function in the app store! The Android one automatically susses where you are (if the device is GPS enabled) which is handy!
 
I took this tonight, at 23:09pm. Not the best, but I'm new to this long exposure shooting. I used my sigma 10-20mm set at F4, with BULB for 3 minutes. iso at 320 which has come out really bright.

I use these sites to track it.

http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sigh...dom&region=England&city=Tamworth#.U-kdKvldW3C

(That has the area I live pre set, you need to put your location for times (it's passing over tomorrow, but wednesday is a good night)

and track it here

http://www.isstracker.com/

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