| Lens | Rubinar 5.6/500 + Baader Astro Solar filter |
| Camera | WebcamPhilips TouCam Pro |
| Guiding | Vixen GPDX |
| Film | -- |
| Exposition | 1/10 000 s |
| Date/time | 08. 06. 2004, 11:09:18 CET |
| Location | village Stupava, northern of Bratislava,
Position measured from hiking map: latitude 48°15'29" N and longitude 17°01'39" E
Position measured by GPS receiver: latitude 48°15'28.6" N and longitude 17°01'38" E (2m positional tolerance) |
| Note | After some experimentation I once again checked my geographical location I chose 500mm telephoto mirror lens and rotated the camera so, that ISS will be crossing their diagonal. I made first test by capturing video sequence few minutes before event. The final sequence started at 12:09:06 of Central european summer time. Only few seconds before predicted time of event. My wife held a shield in front of me and display. Only 12 seconds after start of capturing this video, I saw small black dot on display. I realized, that I had obtained a unique picture and video of that event. Video was captured using maximum available frequency 30frames/sec. Here you can see short video file converted to DivX 5 format. File size is 40 kB. |
Position of observing site is shown on maps as red cross. Blue lines are latitude and longitude in WGS-84 coordinate system. They are marked red. Please click to images for detailed maps.
Photo story from observing site.
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Porter "team" | 
Short pause after second contact |
Ready for ISS capturing.
I did use telephoto lens, mounted on main telescope. | 
Zuzka intently "worked" |
Her work | 
Superb aperture focussing mask |