Hey everyone just wanted to check in with my view of tonights ISS pass. Nothing technical, I had all of 3 minutes to grab the camera and tripod praying the whole time that there was enough juice in the batteries, and the binos and run out to the front yard. Not the best place for viewing due to the street lamp and city lights. Anyways as soon as I had the tripod up and the camera turned on I noticed a red light to the north west just above the neighbors house, not sure if it was the ISS or a plane so a quick look in the binos showed that it was either a very fast plane without strobes or the ISS. Click goes the shutter for a 32second exposure. On a visual note it sure stayed reddish for quite awhile, it didn't seem white until it was up high and nearly due north. the camera took forever to process the long exposure so I repositioned the camera and waited and waited till I was able to take the 2nd and last shot again a 32 second exposure this one turned out pretty good. while that wa processing I watched the ISS and Shuttle cruise into Cygnus where it faded quickly before I could get another shot I should've grabbed the old SLR. I'm posting the pics in my album after I send this. Nice pass, very bright!! Howard ____________________________________________________________________________________ Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. http://sims.yahoo.com/
2 Pics posted, no image processing besides resizing to fit the album, these are straight off the memory card. http://www.utahastronomy.com/Howardj?page=4 Thanks Howard --- Howard Jackman <sumoetx@yahoo.com> wrote:
I'm posting the pics in my album after I send this.
Nice pass, very bright!!
Howard
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