[ATMoB-discuss] ISS/Atlantis

[John Boudreau]

I'm not sure if our club's GT1100 mount can do it, but I know Software Bisque's 'The Sky 6' can be used to make a Paramount ME track satellites pretty accurately. It certainly would be something to look into. If the GT1100 can do it, the club may already have most of the equipment to image the ISS with surprising results.

You may remember my hand tracked webcam ISS shots from last week, with a TEC140 refractor working at f/7:
http://home.comcast.net/~jeboud/satellites.htm

Well, here's a couple of shots also taken with a TEC140 by Domenik Wos in Poland--- but at 4x the effective focal length, a more sensitive video camera, and auto-tracked on the ISS with an AP 1200 GTO:
http://www.astrophotography.pl/solsys/iss/07.06.16/07.06.16.html
Atlantis is visible at the RH end of the ISS in both shots.

Remember, that's still only a 5.5" refractor resolving it that well. Think what the C14 could do!

---John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Valleli" <pvalleli at axsys.com>
To: <atmob-discuss at atmob.org>; <stmlist at yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 2:13 PM
Subject: [ATMoB-discuss] ISS/Atlantis


> There is an amazing and incredibly sharp picture of the ISS and 
> Atlantis STS-117 taken by Ron Dantowitz and Marek Kozubal with the 
> 25-inch scope at Clay Center.
> Go to APOD -astronomy picture of the day for today June28.
> 
> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
> 
> 
> Paul
> 
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