International Space Station (ISS) - Space Shuttle Atlantis Docking Silhouette against sun.

[petejt1983]

This is a manipulated video, but still cool.

[petejt1983]

If this was shot at a high frame rate, then how come the shuttle seems to cover about equal distance than the both combined as one system moving? That would mean the shuttle is moving 17,000mph towards the ISS. Your thoughts......

[marcelolopes06]

o_O

[amedlin72]

I thought it took the ISS only about 1 second to transit the sun. Could someone please explain how such a long video could be captured of the ISS in front of the sun? Maybe it was taken when the sun was very low to the horizon where the orbit is oblique to the camera direction?

[Master0fDeasater]

@amedlin72 He shot this at a very high frame rate (1000fps) and it was played back at 24 frames per second.

[giofrasa]

Perfect !!

[GODLIEK]

I love how some people in the comment section can't grasp the concept of satellites orbiting Earth... Oh well, this is YouTube, whatta u expct? Really cool footage none the less. Did you shoot it?

[moggsie3]

Fake!

[oduranj]

AWESOME!!!!

[manonfireb4u]

you expect me to believe they are that close to the sun?

[SexSoilCigarettes]

@manonfireb4u nah, expect u to believe this was shot at a really fast frame rate.

[CBronsons]

@manonfireb4u really?

[aerowenn]

I am with a PD that has payloads on the ISS, we do a lot of things concerning it's orbit and all that good stuff. It orbits at about 17,250 mph. The sun or the moon either one you choose takes about 1 degree out of the 180 degree visible horizon (approximate). It orbits at about 300km (depending on ground location), or a little over 200 miles. Doing a little math, a transit takes less than a second as seen from Earth... this footage is manipulated, but still cool nonetheless.

[SexSoilCigarettes]

@aerowenn unless this video was shot at at 1000 frames a second and played back at 24... but it wasn't. yes... it's a post-processed image. thanks for the comment!

[tsns1]

@aerowenn : Narly Aero, you must have Chin Beads on your Neck Hairs!

[stevenjackson1958]

Fantastic clip !, great capture.

[alexander2007xyz]

probably 300 times more slowly than in reality .... very nice

[hmadison]

Fake...nice try, though.

[propaghandi2]

@hmadison Why do you say this, i bet you wished you could get nice footage like this!

@SexSoilCigarettes Awsome clip mate love it!

[hmadison]

@propaghandi2 Because the closure rate between the shuttle and ISS is perceptible in this video. In real time, it's barely perceptible because the orbiter closes in on ISS at a rate equal to or less than 1 foot per second, and, again in real time, the translation of the silhouettes across the sun as seen from earth takes a fraction of 1 second. This doesn't make it any less beautiful...I like the video. I'm simply pointing out that it has been manipulated.

[propaghandi2]

@hmadison Okj i see your point! Yo0u seem to know what your talking about in this field :o), but when i do Astrophotagraphy i do use photoshop to make the pic more enjoyable, i thought you where staing that the wholw clip was faked! But i defenetly agree with you for this point!

Cheers!

Do you stargaze?

[HBSfromMsia]

that was freakin amazing

[LLBLLE]

feake

[kilroy987]

I'm assuming this was taken with a high speed camera, because I don't think they could stay in orbit moving that slow.

[cytyler]

this camera is on earth. The shuttle and ISS are thousands of miles away. They are going way fast