ISS International Space Station Flyby plus extra unknown sighting

Here's a video that I took on the morning of July 6th, 2009 of the International Space Station passing overhead, just before sunrise. After I shot the video I noticed some flashes in the sky, which happened to be very close to Jupiter. It's likely that these flashes were from another satellite or possibly a large piece of space junk. The end of the video shows the flashes magnified and in slo-mo. The video was taken with a Sony DSR-Z1U HD camera set to 1080i. A tripod was used, but the ISS traveled so far up the sky that I was not able to tilt the camera back far enough without also tipping the tripod back onto two legs. Although there was not enough magnification to show the shape of the space station (which is now roughly the size of a football field), the shape and brightness of the image change as it moves across the sky.

Category:

Science & Technology

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• ISS
• International
• Space
• Station
• flyby
• satellite
• fly
• by
• space
• orbit
• flare

[mikidof]

whats that thing moving insanely fast in the very beginning?

[mdclayton]

The camera is tracking the ISS. Anything else in the frame is a star or planet which are not moving in the sky at a noticeable rate. That give you an indication of how fast the ISS moves across the sky.

[Lojikbom]

I got to see the ISS fly by in tandem with Enterprise a few nights ago. I wish I would have filmed it. It appeared as two, very bright white dots flying side-by-side. Very cool.

[tomski38]

maybe a plane ?

[smileschx]

Very nice job of filming too. I love watching the ISS too.

[pratikispagal]

pretty cool.

[Citlalideesu]

se ven mejor cuando las ves tu mismo ..

[mrchoppaboy]

i just saw 1 fly by just now

[py4god]

wow that thing is super fast