Time and space

[Peter Ward]

Sometimes you can be in exactly the right place at the right time.

Kudos to Calsky for making this image possible

http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery25.html


Yes...that is the ISS flashing by Jupiter!!

[sheeny (Al)]

Very, very cool, Peter!

I reckon Calsky is an excellent online resource!

Al.

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by sheeny

Very, very cool, Peter!

Thanks Al! I had hoped the ISS would occult Jupiter, but it was really "hauling ass"... as a good friend of mine would say...and only appeared in 2 of 300 frames

SKYnyx 2-2, 12 fps on a AP155 for those interested in the technical details.

[spearo (Frank)]

nice!
frank

[AlexN]

Hah.. Very nice indeed!

I caught the same sort of shot about a month ago, although at a 70mm focal length it did not have the same impact

Kudos to you sir! A very rare image indeed.

[Ric]

A classic image, very nicely done Peter.

[iceman (Mike)]

Brilliant! That's unreal. I saw the ISS too and how close it was passing to Jupiter, what a great capture.

Nicely done!

[Peter Ward]

Thanks to all for your comments. I was not sure whether to track the satellite and hope to snag Jupiter or go the other way around.

I was surprised however how fast the ISS moves when doing a zenith pass.
Even with quite brief shutter speeds it showed trailing. None the less I was happy to catch it in the same field !

[RB (Andrew)]

Ah what an excellent and quite unique capture Peter !
Send it to Spaceweather.

[StephenM (Stephen)]

Fantastic shot Peter!

[Peter Ward]

I've had a little spare time to process the .avi file a bit more.

The ISS has been "de-blurred" just a tad with CS3's smart sharpen motion filter. Same URL

http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery25.html

[iceman (Mike)]

So good!

You even got the GRS on Jupiter!

[AlexN]

Caught the 4 Jovian moons too.... Reckon APOD would take that? I think its worth sending to them...