Amateur Astronomer Grabs Amazing ISS Picture 80
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."
Re:If they want to save power (Score:5, Insightful)
It's a football field, 200 miles away, traveling at 17,500 mph.
You try it.
Re:If they want to save power (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Can anyone else see the wires? (Score:5, Insightful)
If you run it through the image processing software they use on 24, you can actually make out the license plate number too.
Even though its on the other side, facing away from us.
They can lift the print of the guy who screwed it on too.
But the real feat is that they can make out the license plate of the car across the street of a suspected terrorist by enhancing the reflection on one of the space stations windows, on a cloudy day.
I used to enjoy TV. Its almost sad. I can watch a rerun of something like "Columbo" and I find fewer plot holes and more credible police work, more credible set designs, more credible ... everything, than I do on CSI. Sure in Columbo the villain was usually improbably or even implausibly ratting himself out... but compared to the routine violation the current limits of technology, and in many cases the known limits of even theoretical sciencce we are subjected to in the CSI's... Columbo is actually the more beleivable... by far.