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International Space Station
« on: April 21, 2013, 09:12:37 pm »
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Re: International Space Station
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2013, 09:50:46 pm »
 :congrats:

I've been looking into astrophotography but think I need to do some more research first.
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Re: International Space Station
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2013, 10:54:46 pm »
Is that the Dark Side of the Moon?  :P
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Re: International Space Station
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2013, 04:22:12 am »
had to clean the screen...its there alright  :happy2:

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Re: International Space Station
« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2013, 11:21:39 am »
Its an amazing sight to see..... it really whizzes past!  :happy2:
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Re: International Space Station
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2013, 03:15:27 pm »
my monitor is filthy....is the ISS the small white dot to the left?  :ashamed:
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Re: International Space Station
« Reply #6 on: April 22, 2013, 03:33:19 pm »
Affirmative....
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Re: International Space Station
« Reply #7 on: April 22, 2013, 08:15:00 pm »
last time I saw the ISS it flew by! great shot catching it.
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Re: International Space Station
« Reply #8 on: April 22, 2013, 08:26:33 pm »
 :congrats: Very impressive!

I know nothing about spacey things. How do you know the path or location of the ISS Rich, is it via a tracking system of some sort?
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Re: International Space Station
« Reply #9 on: April 22, 2013, 09:12:02 pm »
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Re: International Space Station
« Reply #10 on: April 23, 2013, 12:17:06 am »
Quote from: MC71 on April 22, 2013, 08:26:33 pm
:congrats: Very impressive!

I know nothing about spacey things. How do you know the path or location of the ISS Rich, is it via a tracking system of some sort?

Someone gave me a heads up.... i think its visible tonight too... 23/4/13 about 8:30 low in the sky in the direction of the moon. Ill check it out and let you know.
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Re: International Space Station
« Reply #11 on: April 23, 2013, 06:38:59 am »
Saw it once at altitude,the tropopause is atmospheric layer that above the air gets really really clear.

Anyway we were high and it was low and we got pretty much best view anybody's going to get of it with the naked eye, we see shooting stars regularly up there but they don't have a flashing beacon like the ISS....sort of gave it away.

Sort of had a 10 second WTF before my FO told me what it was and saved my embarrassment I was just about to call up to have it intercepted!

Good pic.....hugely long exposure ??
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Re: International Space Station
« Reply #12 on: April 23, 2013, 08:42:46 am »
Thanks Dave. Not a long exposure, I think it was a few hundredths of a second.

I was going to take a "star trail" long exposure of it to show it moving but couldn't find my tripod plate.  :fighting:
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Re: International Space Station
« Reply #13 on: April 23, 2013, 09:24:44 am »
Quote from: richwig83 on April 23, 2013, 12:17:06 am
Quote from: MC71 on April 22, 2013, 08:26:33 pm
:congrats: Very impressive!

I know nothing about spacey things. How do you know the path or location of the ISS Rich, is it via a tracking system of some sort?

Someone gave me a heads up.... i think its visible tonight too... 23/4/13 about 8:30 low in the sky in the direction of the moon. Ill check it out and let you know.

Will be going round to my brothers tonight as he has a (never used) home telescope. I told him about the ISS (yesterday) and he had a look for it but only managed to find the moon! We could be a long time. :laugh:  :stupid:

EDIT: found all the info here........

http://iss.astroviewer.net/observation.php

 Just found out we've got 5:51 minutes to see it.
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Re: International Space Station
« Reply #14 on: April 23, 2013, 09:34:01 am »
If you have an iphone get the StarWark app... as you can pin point exactly where it should be
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