On the 31st August 2009, we had a reasonably high and bright ISS pass, as the space station passed at about 60° altitude and reaching -2.8 apparent magnitude. Unfortunately the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-128) was still on its way to the ISS and had not yet docked. The Space Shuttle actually passed overhead about 8 [...]
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Amazing Images of the International Space Station
Ralf Vandebergh captures incredible images of the International Space Station, the Space Shuttle and other Earth-orbiting satellites. I’ve always been a huge fan of Ralf’s work. It inspires me to try and capture better images of the ISS. Ralf doesn’t have a website though, and so it can be difficult to find his work scattered [...]
International Space Station, 9th April 2009
On the morning of the 9th April, a bright ISS pass went almost overhead, coming out of Earth’s shadow at about 60° altitude in the South West (where I have trees) heading through to the North East. I was well prepared for this pass – finderscope was aligned (and not fogged up!) and I checked [...]
International Space Station with Discovery Docked
On the mornings of Friday 20th and Sunday 22nd March I had a busy couple of mornings, with a bright pass of the International Space Station (ISS) over my location, as well as capturing Jupiter (20th and 22nd) and the Moon. The great thing about the ISS pass was that the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-119) [...]
International Space Station this morning
Hi all We had a fairly nice pass this morning, reaching about 57deg altitude. I set my 12″ newt up on the EQ mount to start with, and I used Betelguese which was nice and high so I could get focus and set exposure and align the finderscope. I then shifted the OTA to the [...]
Moon, Orion and the ISS
This image was taken this morning at approx 4:45am local time on the 24th September 2008, with a mag -1 ISS pass flying by at an altitude of approx 43deg. I put the camera direct on the EQ mount (plonked down and not aligned) and set it to track so that I wouldn’t get the [...]
The ISS through my 12″ scope
It’s been about 9 months since I was last able to capture an image of the ISS through the scope – the weather and timing have meant I just haven’t had an opportunity until last Thursday night. It was a nice overhead pass, mag -2.1, but due to trees I could only capture it once [...]
Bright ISS Pass Last Night
Last night we had a great International Space Station (ISS) pass over Sydney and the Central Coast, passing almost directly overhead at a max magnitude of -2.4. It occured between 18:48 and 18:51 local time, a great time of night with the sky nice and dark, and not too late either so I could drag [...]
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