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."
Another way to view (Score:5, Interesting)
You can view things up in orbit this way [astrosurf.com] too. Just don't do it without the proper filtering protection.
Re:If they want to save power (Score:1, Interesting)
I'm still really surprised to find out how impressive this lousy looking fuzzy shot really is. On a clear night, with the right equipment, I would have assumed you could do much better.
Am I troll? Or just uninformed?
Re:If they want to save power (Score:1, Interesting)
I thought it was blurry because he was hand tracking it (moving the telescope manually) -- a 25cm netwonian is a pretty decent sized scope though (just under 10")