New developed tracking software
Nice footae of the ISS with ASA AZ800
During a factory acceptance test on 29. January with an ASA AZ800, an 800mm telescope, we had nice seeing just outside our factory building and the ASA team could obtain some good footage of the ISS with our new developed tracking software (currently only available for AZ models).
The video was then processed by Damien Peach, who could squeeze out some fantastic details from the raw footage and obtained the following image from 3 different parts of the video.
ASA AZ800 Ritchey-Chrétien telescope f6.85
Daytime Video of ISS passing Austria
On February 12th, we tried to catch the ISS during a daytime pass for the first time. The sun was up since 2 hours when we could center the ISS in the small field of the more than 5.5m focal length telescope.
Exceptional seeing (at least for our location on a test stand on the side of our factory) allowed for some pretty high resolution images, maybe the best obtained so far during daylight.
Zero vibration ultra smooth tracking even with 5 degree/sec azimuth speed in combination with an unsurpassed optical quality was the key for this success.
