Hi all ,

Some good visual morning passes of ISS are due over Europe during the next few days.
At present the Canadarm2 is fully extended and illuminates quite nicely .

Here's how it looked on Tuesday morning over the UK.



Regards ,

John

Very cool.

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Amazing ,How was it done.

one of the best capture i have seen of the iss wow!

It's amazing to me that it's even possible to get such photos, but then the space station is only on the order of a hundred miles away.

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Excellent work John, what time and your equipments?

with regards
George Tarsoudis

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Wow! Truly great. Got a website?

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Hi Iceman....and all....

Yes , I have at webiste at

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/...March2005.html

which has lots more ISS movies....plus a link to my solar and lunar transit pages.

Its all done with mirrors ...those inside my LX90 8 inch !
Tracking is by hand.....and capture is effected by using a Philips webcam , shoved into the eyepiece holder of the scope.

Great fun...but hard work at times.

When tracking a satellite by hand , mirror shift can be a problem..so I focus on a convenient star...then throw the OTA around a bit , re focus..and repeat this a few times until the mirror settles down....then its simply a matter of making sure your viewfinder is properly collimated.....and that you track the moving station as carefully as you can.

I would encourage everyone to have a go.....makes a change to have a fast moving target , rather than sit on a steady planet or star cluster !

John

holy schmoley John!

thanks a bunch

and ...welcome to BAUT

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BRILLIANT website John!

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Hi Mahesh.....thanks

I see you are a few clicks south of me......which means you will get even better views of the station than I do.

My pass max elevation here ( On the Wirral near to Liverpool ) is 62 degrees which puts it at 400 km downrange at the nearest.
For Europe , the next week or so will see up to four visible passes each night...a great time to give imaging it a try.

John

Nice one John! Good to run into you again on another forum. Long time no see!
I'd do some more imaging of the ISS myself, but I haven't had many chances lately with the weather here in Seattle. I'm thinking postive about some good skies when STS-121 finally flies in July (fingers crossed!) and get some shots of the ISS/Shuttle.

Anyway, here are some of my attempts at this topic. Comments, pointing and laughing, or other forms of harassment always welcome.

http://www.eastsideastro.org/observa...pacecraft.html

Tom

Hi Tom ,

Good to hear from you again

I'm kinda hoping 121 is delayed a couple of weeks as a July 1 launch will mean I get no visuals , day or night , which will be a bit of a shame !
( although early July will give me a visual climb out )

The ultimate challenge is a Solar transit just prior to docking , or after undocking !


You think Seattle is bad for weather..........try the west coast of the UK

John

I'm sure the launch will be delayed. NASA is so paranoid now about flying anything that they won't take any chances I'm sure. It will be amazing if they ever get that ISS completed before the shuttle is retired.

I guess I should check my dates also and see if the ISS/Shuttle will pass over me at that time!
I think it's been about a month and a half since I have done any deep sky imaging with our weather. I did take a few Jupiter shots recently, but that was while dodging clouds.

Tom

Forgot to mention, John's ISS animation got TWO days on Spaceweather.com--both on the 18th and the 19th of June. (Bottom then top, use the "View Archives" at the upper right.) Lots of people look at Spaceweather, so .

http://spaceweather.com/index.cgi

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Great photos indeed.