Amateur Astronomer Grabs Amazing ISS Picture

The Bad Astronomer writes "Ralf Vandebergh is an amateur astronomer, and using a simple telescope with a video camera attached to it, he took an incredibly detailed picture of the International Space Station. You can easily see the recently-installed truss and solar panels, as well as the Space Shuttle Discovery docked to the station."

WOW!!

[TinBromide]

IT DOES EXIST!!

Does it mean that the moon landing happened too?

obligatory

[Anonymous Coward]

Thats no moon,it IS a space station give the man some geek points!

Re:On a clear night...

[stox]

On a clear disk you can seek forever.

Re:If they want to save power

[MichaelSmith]

most observatories are on top of mountains.

Not an easy thing to find in the Netherlands.

Re:Can anyone else see the wires?

[MeanMF]

If you run it through the image processing software they use on 24, you can actually make out the license plate number too.

Re:If they want to save power

[stonedcat]

I've seen a pair of really nice mountain in the Netherlands belonging to a girl named Hope.

Re:Can anyone else see the wires?

[Anonymous Coward]

Any sign of that bat?

Re:Also...

[Zugok]

This time it was not a cromulent word to use.

Irresponsible

[CmdrGravy]

I can't believe the government are allowing people to take these sorts of images. This is just a gift to the terrorists, they'll be able to see exactly which parts of the space station to target and may even be able to bring the whole thing down on a major population centre.

Unbelievable !

Re:obligatory

[Spinalcold]

Honest to the Force, my friend's daughter was taught by her mom to decern the Space Station from the Moon, "that's no moon, thats a space station". So when she went away, her daughter (3 years old) grabbed her dad, pulled him to the bedroom and pointed at the space station, and said "No Moon, Space Station."

Give geek points to the 3 year old, she deserves them!

Re:If they want to save power

[Anonymous Coward]

And you're complaining because you can't see their tits clearly.

Well, duh. Wouldn't you?

Faked Picture

[StormReaver]

This is obviously a fake. If you look closely, you can see the wires holding up the space station! The only rational conclusion is that the space station was filmed in front of a live studio audience under strict NDA. Quick! Somebody notify Fox News! They'll do one of their award winning exposes. They'll probably even be able to get Geraldo to unmask the perpetrators!