SAS Astronomy Pictures of the Month [October, 2026]
Enhanced Closeup of the ISS!
Here’s my latest tracking of the International Space Station (ISS) taken on the evening of September 12, 2026! I was able to get over 1500 frames at 45 frames per second, so I had plenty of frames to choose from! I had the ISS dead center in the chip (while the two yellow concentric circles show up), but then it begins to lose it for some reason….I’ll have to investigate why.
Tracking video for the International Space Station (ISS) – Sept. 12, 2026 – by Terry Riopka
I pulled out 300 of the best frames for the small clip below, shown here with gamma enhanced.
International Space Station (ISS) best frames video – Sept. 12, 2026 – by Terry Riopka
In the time I was tracking the ISS, it did not change relative orientation significantly, so I managed to average a sequence of best frames from the clip above to obtain this image, which I sharpened slightly. The flower petal looking structure could be the Soyuz MS-29 still docked with the ISS’s Prichal module. It’s fairly consistent and prominent in the video clip above.
International Space Station (ISS) – averaged and sharpened – Sept. 12, 2026 – by Terry Riopka