ISS and Space Shuttle Pass 30-10-2007

This is a pass of the International Space Station over my front yard on the 30th of October. At the time, the Space Shuttle Discovery was docked to the station. The pass had a maximum altitude of about 50 degrees.

This was taken using a 10" F5 Newtonian telescope on a simple Dobsonian base. A Panasonic MiniDV video camera was attached to a 26mm eyepiece and aligned with the finderscope. I tracked the station by hand by watching through the finderscope and making sure to keep it centred in the crosshairs.

Enjoy! :)

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• ISS
• International
• Space
• Station
• Telescope
• Shuttle
• Discovery
• Astronomy
• Spaceship
• NASA

[yourjudgeandjury]

Next time use a motorized tracking mount. This shaky movement is just like that of Cloverfield.

[ChrissyoSpace]

@yourjudgeandjury I will if you'd be willing to buy one for me. ;)

[OneWorld4us]

Why does it moves so much ?, It seems you were not using some telescope base .. is it true ?

[ChrissyoSpace]

@OneWorld4us It moves so much because i was hand tracking the station as it moved across the sky. I did have the scope on a mount, but it wasnt motorised, so I had to manually do the tracking.

[RCFMitch]

can you help me to get started in ISS tracking

i got the stuff...any suggestions would help...

[ChrissyoSpace]

Sure! What sorta info are you after?

[bleebleBABBLE91]

nice bro, to bad its a little shaky, but its all good. the ISS moves at 11,000 mph so its hard to keep track on it.

[568chris]

is the computer arrow!!!



[johnnyray1717]

He put in the info, " over my front yard". O_o

[Astronooby]

I bow down to you tracking this on a Dob.

[iloveairfrance]

@ChrissyoSpace Well said ^^You made my day

[sonicsn4ke]

WOW i was able to see it very clearly, THANK YOU

[tailorela]

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