ISS and Discovery

[the_lone_wolf]

Anyone else watching these two whizz over the night sky?

Perhaps I'm a bit of a bumpkin but I think it's f***ing amazing when you consider they're about 340km straight up travelling at a relative 17,200mph!!!

Have a photo, my first ever attempt at this sort of photography...

http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/rr243/ktm_wolf/Photography/ISS_1_SMLL.jpg

You can check out when the ISS is flying over at NASA's website:

NASA (http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/view.cgi?country=United_Kingdom&region=England)

:cool:

[Berlin]

I watch for satelites going over poretty much every night when i'm out for ma ciggy. Thast a seriously good shot for a first go!

Yesterday I saw two strange things in the sky at disk. First was like a camera flash going off way too high to be a plane and second was a shooting star that was much earlier than I've ever seen one before. It wasn't half way to dusk.

C

[Bluepete]

I watched the iss last night with my 12 year old daughter. Never seen it before, it was very cool!

Pete;)

[the_lone_wolf]

Thast a seriously good shot for a first go!
Cheers dude

D5000 and a cheapy tripod, bulb mode and a few test shots to gauge the right exposure and a bit of a fiddle in photoshop afterwards to bring out the blue in the sky

Quite chuffed myself:cheers:

[Ed]

It does make you feel very small. We have next to no street lighting here and we back onto farmland so it's very dark out back, and when it's really cold and clear the stars are just awesome. You can easily make out so many constellations, the plough and the great bear are easy, the others take a bit more time to figure out.

[maviczap]

Bit hard to see with 100% cloud cover we've had here :(

[Dave20046]

Is it the big streak on the right or the patch of blue star looking things on the left?
Cool either way though :)...just unknown cool.

[the_lone_wolf]

Is it the big streak on the right or the patch of blue star looking things on the left?
LOL

It's the streak

The patch is a little blue as I toned the temperature of the photo in post processing, no idea what the star formation is but it was noticeably bright

[Dave20046]

COOL
...thought it was, just testing youz innit



:oops:

[Ed]

It's aliens:o

[metalmonkey]

I really think its awesome:cool: Being in the city its hard to see much at all...

I have been in a few isloated places where there is no light pollution and not many people, its amazing.

[thedonal]

It's aliens:o

I walk among you