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#440
by
Speedracer
on 14 May, 2009 22:59
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Battery Charger for EVA SN#21 will be decommissioned and crew moving to backup charger.
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#441
by
stockman
on 15 May, 2009 00:10
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#442
by
robertross
on 15 May, 2009 00:20
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This never gets old...
Ain't that the truth.
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#443
by
Ronsmytheiii
on 15 May, 2009 03:15
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#444
by
stockman
on 15 May, 2009 03:23
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well that is certainly impressive...
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#445
by
Jester
on 15 May, 2009 08:06
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#446
by
elmarko
on 15 May, 2009 08:23
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What the hell? Where was that taken from and with what equipment? Are we sure it's 125?
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#447
by
Jester
on 15 May, 2009 08:43
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What the hell? Where was that taken from and with what equipment? Are we sure it's 125?
That's all I have, taken on the 12th of May said to be Atlantis/STS-125
Must be somebody playing with some big lenses/filters....
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#448
by
Chris Bergin
on 15 May, 2009 10:07
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Impressive, must have been from a Solar monitoring sat maybe?
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#449
by
leresistant
on 15 May, 2009 10:19
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Crazy!
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#450
by
SimonShuttle
on 15 May, 2009 10:25
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I thought it might of been a trick of the light, but the image file says "Sun" so that is very clever!
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#451
by
tva
on 15 May, 2009 11:10
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What the hell? Where was that taken from and with what equipment? Are we sure it's 125?
You may think it is extraordinary but the picture is not uniq by any means.
ISS was caught in a similar way in front of the Moon in 2008
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#452
by
ede545
on 15 May, 2009 11:35
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Okay, it may not be that
extraordinary, but to me it looks really amazing. Must be quite challenging to get it with a transit time below one second.
Some remarks from
Thierry Legault's site:
Only image ever taken of a transit of a space shuttle (Atlantis) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in front of the Sun, during the last repair mission of Hubble, obtained from Florida at 100 km south of the Kennedy Space Center on May 13th 2009 12:17 local time, several minutes before grapple of Hubble by Atlantis.
Transit duration: 0.8s. Transit bandwidth on Earth: 5.6 km. Altitude: 600 km. Speed: 7 km/s (25000 km/h). Length of Atlantis : 35m, length of Hubble : 13m.
Transit forecast (place, time...) calculated by www.calsky.com.
Takahashi TOA-130 refractor (diameter 130mm, final focal 2200mm), Baader solar prism and Canon 5D mark II. Exposure of 1/8000s at 100 ISO, extracted from a series of 16 images (4 images/s) started 2s before the predicted time.
Initially I found these images on
Flickr and then I realized it had been posted here already.
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#453
by
TranquillityBase
on 15 May, 2009 11:51
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The second image "3531350583_9d341d9f2a_o.jpg" posted by Ronsmytheiii - is that the Hubble during the approach? or a very timely placed sun spot?
Reguardless - greet images. They will go well with the ISS sun pass captured not all that long ago
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#454
by
Speedracer
on 15 May, 2009 13:35
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The second image "3531350583_9d341d9f2a_o.jpg" posted by Ronsmytheiii - is that the Hubble during the approach? or a very timely placed sun spot?
It's on front page of Spaceweather.com - Atlantis + HST during rendezvous and capture.
