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Subject Topic: International Space station pass
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21/10/2013 at 10:22pm
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I hanve been watching the ISS and the shuttle for years    The NASA site - viewing opportunities -  is excellent for information of seeing the 'star' crossing the sky     My six year old grandson phoned me up the other night to tell me he had seen it   It must have been last year when  I showed it to him for the first time     He was probably on his way back from Beavers and saw the moving object and bingo   Who says teachers never do good things!


21/10/2013 at 10:57pm
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Quote: Originally posted by lockie on 21/10/2013
I have an app on my iphone called iss spotter, its free and shows you exactly where over the world it is.

Its mad when you can see it yet its over the atlantic and lose sight of it when its actually over italy.

Tried several times to take photos but it moves way too fast and just ends up a white long blurr lol.

Its amazing how many satellites you can see too.





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bit like that lockie

a tripod or stable surface is needed

and the further you get away from ambient light the more satellites you do see with the human eye most impressive

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23/10/2013 at 7:19pm
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Just watched it for 6 minutes tonight sky was clear and it was pretty bright and fast 18.33 till 18.39


23/10/2013 at 8:49pm
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Quote: Originally posted by raftguid1977 on 21/10/2013
Quote: Originally posted by lockie on 21/10/2013I have an app on my iphone called iss spotter, its free and shows you exactly where over the world it is.

Its mad when you can see it yet its over the atlantic and lose sight of it when its actually over italy.

Tried several times to take photos but it moves way too fast and just ends up a white long blurr lol.

Its amazing how many satellites you can see too.





DSC_9365 by fed187, on Flickr



bit like that lockie

a tripod or stable surface is needed

and the further you get away from ambient light the more satellites you do see with the human eye most impressive



Yep a bit like that but far more blurr and no visible stars, i was only grabbing the camera and pointing it up,no tripod lol.



24/10/2013 at 12:36am
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a 15 second exposure or more if you can set you camera on manual lockie and try and manual focus ( and auto focus wont do of a night )


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