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Originally Posted by StephenM
Brett, Did you notice how the station reddens as it passes through the shadow of the atmosphere? I got a nice image of this last year.
Cheers,
Stephen
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I watched the ISS come from the NW horizon, but didn't notice any dramatic change of colour. Deeply frustrating as it just rained a little while before the passover. The NW horizon was heavily clouded, but went to pristine clear overhead, go figure!
Though the colour went from more of a dull beige from the horizon, to a really bright white light seconds before it disappeared. I missed the split second disappearing act, as I was busy taking a photo and looking at the camera. But I'll check my photo. I'll see if I can post it up. Grainy though.
I checked heavensabove and it showed just after the highest altitude, it went into darkness, so the webpage is pretty spot on with it's data.
So the point of me taking the photo was about 3 seconds before, it went into darkness.
This 3 seconds was spent looking at the result on the camera, hence a "DOH" is recommended
Photos are negative and colour:
(Sorry for the poor grainy quality, iso @1600 for 8 sec with a FujiFilm S1000fd)
It does show the point of going into darkness, I'm shocked. And stoked. The hook at the top right, is me hitting the camera.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3553/...857c5a7f_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2664/...7bcbcae5_o.jpg