[ATMoB-discuss] Images of last night's ISS/Shuttle pass...

[noatak at aol.com]

Nice pictures John. In fact - fantastic! I watched the ISS through my 6" refractor at 65x as it passed into the SW. I saw two very bright rectangles which clearly were the solar panels on each side of the spacecraft. They were "glowing" so to speak, like an overexposed ccd camera image displayed on the monitor. So you may have been better off photographing the ISS when it was not at it's max brightess as you could have been fighting with overexposure issues. What a nice sight wathing the two glide across the sky- one following the other. And what a night for seeing. It was the steadiest I have seen in a long time.

Mike Hill


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Here's a few images from my webcam video from last night's ISS/STS-117 pass. The 
op row is the ISS and  from L to R, at 3 stages in it's pass ranging from about 
0° altitude to near the zenith. The single image of Atlantis below is from two 
rames taken shortly after passing near the zenith:
http://home.comcast.net/~jeboud/satellites.htm
Throughout most of the video, most of the time the ISS was brighter than the 
huttle. As both neared their maximum altitude and headed towards the SW, I was 
racking on the Shuttle and couldn't put the scope back on the ISS when it was 
t it's brightest due to interference from the RA motor of my G11 mount. So the 
huttle was recorded at or near max magnitude, but the ISS was not.


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