STS-134 (Endeavour) chasing the ISS!

[StephenM]

Hi all,

I've always wanted to see a double pass of the shuttle and space station together, and I had to wait until the penultimate shuttle flight to see it - but it was worth the wait! An absolutely spectacular sight at about 6:13pm today, as the two spacecraft flew over separated by less than one degree. And the clouds only cleared about 5 minutes before they passed!

I was also lucky enough to have set up the camera on the tripod, and took 3x10 second exposures which I've stacked using Startrails. I hope you like the result! I'm fairly stoked to have finally captured it :D.

Cheers,
Stephen

[Octane]

Super. :)

H

[StephenM]

Thanks H.

Spaceweather says they docked at 6:14am EDT, so by my calculations the 3rd of my exposures was exactly 2 hrs prior to docking! I think I really was lucky to have captured this!

Cheers,
Stephen

[DavidTrap]

Well done Stephen. I was disappointed as I drove home this evening looking at all that cloud to the north. Didn't even bother going outside...

DT

[mithrandir]

Excellent Stephen. I caught a glimpse of them just before they vanished into the earth's shadow.

[Nico13]

Great capture well done.

Ken

[cookie8]

Superb capture. One to show to your grandkids.

[StephenM]

Thanks very much David, Andrew, Ken and Vincent!

I just noticed that this image made the front page of Spaceweather as well!

http://www.spaceweather.com/

Cheers,
Stephen

[von Tom]

Well done Stephen!

[Liz]

Woohoo!! Congrats Stephen on Spaceweather front page, again ;).
A great capture. :thumbsup:

[adman]

that's a great picture. I had almost given up hope of those clouds clearing - so it was a very welcome sight. I was just walking out of work at the time, and caught most of the approach till when they faded out.

Adam

[multiweb]

Good stuff! :thumbsup:

[StephenM]

Thanks very much Tom, Liz, Adam and Marc!

Cheers,
Stephen

[hotspur]

WOW!-the 'Top-Gun' of IIS does it again! well done!!!

[StephenM]

Thanks very much Chris! - but I think the "Top-Gun of IIS" tag is a bit of an exaggerration!!!

Cheers,
Stephen

[Clayton]

Well done Stephen, Looks like this is one shot I will never get.

[Matt Wastell]

Pleased you got the shot!

[StephenM]

Thanks Rob and Matt! Yes Rob, it was a bit of a one-off opportunity so it was nice to capture it.

Cheers,
Stephen

[jjjnettie]

How cool is that! Well nabbed old boy.

[StephenM]

Thanks jjj. It looked very cool as they both sailed overhead together!

Cheers,
Stephen