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| Written by David Galvin | |
| Thursday, 14 June 2007 | |
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Rob Johnson.
Sunday 10th June 2007
Hope everyone
managed to see the ISS and STS117 last night if you were
able.
On the second pass
of the ISS after midnight I took a real 'shot in the dark' following something
Dave (G) said to me about visually seeing the shape of the ISS whilst someone was
'tracking'
the 16" 'scope up at the Leighton Obs.
So I thought why not
bung the webcam on the 14" and set it recording whilst I tried to catch the ISS
in the finder as close to the cross hairs as possible.
Well it worked of
sorts - most of the images were long trails of blur as the ISS whipped acros the
view but these were a few less blurry from 1681 frames!! I think the only one
that might be close to
the truth is the last image. The images go from top left
at the start of the pass the the bottom right
towards the end of the
pass.
Rob has taken more video of the ISS/STS and has produced his second attempt at capturing some detail.
It is compared next to a splended image by Mike Tyrrell,
http://www.astrospider.com/ whose web site is well worth a visit. Rob's image, on the right, shows the position of the solar panels. Keep upto date with the space news from NASA TV by going to our Useful Links
and selecting Space links. Furthe images of ISS/STS by members can be found in the Gallery. 
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