Anyone have good ISS shots to share?

[KmH]

On a more serious note...

See: How I got an APOD: Dylan O'Donnell • PhotographingSpace.com

Oh YEAH!!!! Well get your butt over to my house and explain to my wife why I need to buy an expensive telescope so I can get into another expensive hobby! FYI. Come armed or wearing armor.

The telescope doesn't cost any more than a good camera maker's 70-2000 f/2.8 lens - $2200.
The telescope with a quality equatorial GOTO computerized mount is only $3100 - which is actually a very reasonable price since the mount by itself is a $1400 item.

 

[table1349]

On a more serious note...

See: How I got an APOD: Dylan O'Donnell • PhotographingSpace.com

Oh YEAH!!!! Well get your butt over to my house and explain to my wife why I need to buy an expensive telescope so I can get into another expensive hobby! FYI. Come armed or wearing armor.

The telescope doesn't cost any more than a good camera maker's 70-2000 f/2.8 lens - $2200.
The telescope with a quality equatorial GOTO computerized mount is only $3100 - which is actually a very reasonable price since the mount by itself is a $1400 item.

Ok, I want to see this 70-2000 f2.8 for $2200.00. Talk about a large focal range.

Lest ye forget, I own a 200mm f2, 300mm f2.8 & 400mm f2.8. She would kill me if I got into another hobby that I could sink money into.

 

[astroNikon]

Yeah, they're cheap.
I have an previous model of this ==> Meade LX200-ACF 12"/305mm Catadioptric Telescope 1210-60-03

It's 3048mm
This summer I'm going to use my 2x camera adapter with it and see how that goes.

 

[Solarflare]

Hmm.

Pricey, pricey toys.

Just to get a picture of the ISS thats a few pixels wide.

 

[table1349]

Yeah, they're cheap.
I have an previous model of this ==> Meade LX200-ACF 12"/305mm Catadioptric Telescope 1210-60-03

It's 3048mm
This summer I'm going to use my 2x camera adapter with it and see how that goes.

This is what I was looking at a while back.
CGEM - 1100 Computerized Telescope [item # 11099]

Didn't need it then. A friend of mine was in charge of the local public observatory. It recently got shut down so now it,s a whole lot tougher.

 

[astroNikon]

Yeah, they're cheap.
I have an previous model of this ==> Meade LX200-ACF 12"/305mm Catadioptric Telescope 1210-60-03

It's 3048mm
This summer I'm going to use my 2x camera adapter with it and see how that goes.

This is what I was looking at a while back.
CGEM - 1100 Computerized Telescope [item # 11099]

Didn't need it then. A friend of mine was in charge of the local public observatory. It recently got shut down so now it,s a whole lot tougher.

Nice.

I nearly bought the 14 inch version instead of my 12". Except it was just so darn heavy and I needed some sort of portability that wouldn't kill my back irregardless of wheeled cases (which can cost over $1,000 on their own).

 

[table1349]

It probably didn't help my cause when my wife and I were in the local science store a while back and I happen to take a gander at this little baby. I looked at the telescope, she look at the price tag.
LX200-ACF 16" with Super Giant Field Tripod

I was just curious. In the animal world curiosity may kill the cat. In the human world curiosity can kill the hobby.

 

[KmH]

Now you're getting into medium format digital camera price territory .

The LX2oo series are observatory grade telescopes too.
One of the astronomy clubs I'm a member of has a 16" LX200 in the east observatory dome.

But. There is big, and there is big:
Obsession Telescopes / Telescopes / 25" Classic

 

[astroNikon]

It probably didn't help my cause when my wife and I were in the local science store a while back and I happen to take a gander at this little baby. I looked at the telescope, she look at the price tag.
LX200-ACF 16" with Super Giant Field Tripod

I was just curious. In the animal world curiosity may kill the cat. In the human world curiosity can kill the hobby.

The tripod itself is 50 lbs.

 

[table1349]

I was just looking. I wasn't buying.

 

[Dave442]

I'm just going to wait until the space station is built up big enough that I can take a picture of it with my 300mm lens...forget it, just checked and from where I am it only is visible for 1 minute and very low.

 

[astroNikon]

I'm just going to wait until the space station is built up big enough that I can take a picture of it with my 300mm lens...forget it, just checked and from where I am it only is visible for 1 minute and very low.

Maybe, If you wait long enough, and position yourself correctly, you may be able to take a photo of it as it reenters the earth's atmosphere like SkyLab did back in 1979.

 

[Watchful]

I have a 16 inch Mead that my neighbor and I bought together and then he moved leaving me the scope as he had lost interest.

 

[480sparky]

I have a 16 inch Mead that my neighbor and I bought together and then he moved leaving me the scope as he had lost interest.

Shoulda gone halvsies on a Ferrari or a Lambo.

 

[Watchful]

Not interested in those. And if we had, he would have ended up with them for half price. lol